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A Katherine Mansfield Chronology
ISBN: 9781349357826 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new addition to the Author Chronologies series details the tumultuous and tragic life of Katherine Mansfield (she died from tuberculosis aged only thirty-four) and sheds new light on her approach and attitudes to writing.
This new addition to the Author Chronologies series details the tumultuous and tragic life of Katherine Mansfield (she died from tuberculosis aged onl...
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A Henry James Chronology
ISBN: 9781349521180 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new volume in the Author Chronology series offers an intense articulation of Henry James's biographical experiences, which are presented amid the detailed unfolding of his imaginative writing, and set in the larger context of historical developments that impinged upon his life. Evoking the wide range of his experiences with other human beings, his manifold studies of fellow artists in various fields, and his critical articulation of the art of writing fiction, this study reveals his major influence upon subsequent writers and students of fiction.
This new volume in the Author Chronology series offers an intense articulation of Henry James's biographical experiences, which are presented amid the...
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William Faulkner: A Literary Life
ISBN: 9781349523955 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite all the studies devoted to William Faulkner, he continues to be variously perceived. Focussing on his fiction, this study ofFaulkner's multifaceted literary life explores the distinctive blend of continuity and innvoation that characterizes his novels and looks at the extensive and variedreactions they have elicited."
Despite all the studies devoted to William Faulkner, he continues to be variously perceived. Focussing on his fiction, this study ofFaulkner's multifa...
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The Noir Thriller
ISBN: 9780333720455 / Angielski / Twarda / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study ranges over hundreds of novels, analyzing the politics and poetics of noir.
What is literary noir? How do British and American noir thrillers relate to their historical contexts? In considering such questions, this study range...
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407,25 |
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The British Council and Anglo-Greek Literary Interactions, 1945-1955
ISBN: 9781472470348 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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George Oppen: The Words in Action
ISBN: 9781611487497 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Oppen's standing in American poetry has never been greater. Yet despite the mass of critical writing since his death in 1984, the essential basis of the verse--the words on the page and their acoustics--has rarely been the subject of discussion. In this book therefore Richard Swigg breaks away from the general trend of Oppen studies studies and offers the reader a direct way into the visual and auditory dimension of the poems. Ranging across the entire span of the work, from the 1930s to the 1970s, he traces for the first time the full extent of Oppen's engagement with the concrete...
George Oppen's standing in American poetry has never been greater. Yet despite the mass of critical writing since his death in 1984, the essential bas...
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471,92 |
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Nostalgia for a Foreign Land: Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel
ISBN: 9781618115287 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the "big wave" of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part of their works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. They are popular and active authors on the Israeli scene, in the printed and electronic media, and some of them are also editors of the renowned journals and authors of literary and cultural reviews and essays. They constitute a new generation of Jewish-Russian writers: diasporic Russians and new Israelis.
This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the "big wave" of the 1990s or later, and whose largest part o...
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Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost
ISBN: 9781349287055 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines several unexplored aspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how they contribute to the reader's experience and modernism in general.
This study examines several unexplored aspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how th...
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Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell
ISBN: 9781349288151 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 1930's through the mid-century performances of poets such as Dylan Thomas and Anne Sexton.
Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 19...
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Writing Under the Influence: Alcoholism and the Alcoholic Perception from Hemingway to Berryman
ISBN: 9781349286959 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book offers a socio-critical analysis of the alcoholic perception in the poetry and fiction of modern American alcoholic writers. Matts Djos focuses on primary indicators of alcohol addiction (fear, manipulation, anger, loneliness, and antic-social behavior) and their expression in modern American literature. After providing a general foundation for analysis of the psychological effects of the disease, this volume scrutinizes the work of Ernest Hemingway, John Berryman, E.A. Robinson, Hart Crane, Theodore Roetheke, Robert Lowell, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner. The detail provides...
The book offers a socio-critical analysis of the alcoholic perception in the poetry and fiction of modern American alcoholic writers. Matts Djos focus...
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James Joyce and the Revolt of Love: Marriage, Adultery, Desire
ISBN: 9781349289578 / Angielski / Miękka / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biography. Utell claims that Joyce uses these relations to imagine a different kind of love, one based in a radical acceptance and a rejection of a utilitarian and sexually repressive stance towards marriage.
This study examines the representation of marital and extramarital relations in James Joyce's texts, with reference to context and to Joyce's biograph...
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Subjectivity in the American Protes
ISBN: 9781349290697 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolutionary potential of the novel, transformingliterary conventions concerning art and politics, readers and characters."
In the first major study of the twentieth-century American protest novel, Drake examines a group of authors who self-consciously exploited the revolut...
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Front Lines of Modernism
ISBN: 9781349290956 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.
This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglecte...
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The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses
ISBN: 9781349291496 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.
Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular cult...
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Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces
ISBN: 9781349292578 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in French as La geocritique: reel, fiction, espace.
Originally published in French as La geocritique: reel, fiction, espace.
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Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature
ISBN: 9781349293933 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examinesliterature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. Itexamines how, though such fiction seemed to resolutely avoid the events and implications of World War II, it was still suffused with dread and suggestions of war in imagery and language."
This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examinesliterature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. Itexamines how, thoug...
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Writing Celebrity: Stein, Fitzgerald, and the Modern(ist) Art of Self-Fashioning
ISBN: 9781349294657 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examines the impact that this culture had on "literary" writing in the decades before World War II.
Writing Celebrity is divided into three major sections. The first part traces the rise of a national celebrity culture in the United States and examin...
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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere
ISBN: 9781349313518 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad, Kipling, Melville, Emily Bronte, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys and others, it offers new perspectives on...
Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the ...
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Baader-Meinhof and the Novel: Narratives of the Nation / Fantasies of the Revolution, 1970-2010
ISBN: 9781349343904 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers. This book is the first to examine this rich literary corpus, treating it as a political unconscious which expresses submerged anxieties and moral blind-spots in Europe's most powerful country.
The Baader-Meinhof Group and other violent underground organizations have provided material to many novels by leading German and international writers...
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American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers
ISBN: 9781349351329 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D'Amore analyzes the autobiographical works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Dave Eggers in light of theories of authorship, autobiography, and celebrity.
This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives. D...
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