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Dominant Narratives of Colonial Hokkaido and Imperial Japan: Envisioning the Periphery and the Modern Nation-State
ISBN: 9781349450251 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japan's national identity, imperial ideology, and empire.
Recasts the commonly dismissed colonial project pursued in Hokkaido during the Meiji era (1868-1912) as a major force in the production of modern Japa...
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Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama
ISBN: 9781349469260 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres.
Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Lo...
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Literary and Cultural Relations Between Brazil and Mexico: Deep Undercurrents
ISBN: 9781349478965 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and making evident the mostly untold story of horizontal (south-south) contacts across a multilingual, multicultural continent.
Joining a timely conversation within the field of intra-American literature, this study takes a fresh look at Latin America by locating fragments and ...
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Decadence in Literature and Intellectual Debate Since 1945
ISBN: 9781349492190 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this int...
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Masculinities in Black and White: Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature
ISBN: 9781349503759 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin.
Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as se...
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The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said: Spatiality, Critical Humanism, and Comparative Literature
ISBN: 9781349504268 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous critical impact, this collection features essays that highlight the significance of Said's work for contemporary spatial criticism, comparative literary studies, and the humanities in general.
Edward W. Said is considered one of the most influential literary and postcolonial theorists in the world. Affirming Said's multifaceted and enormous ...
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Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations, 1500-1900
ISBN: 9781349528783 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, "Imperialisms" examines the identity statements of the world's major imperialisms in multiple theatres of competition over the course of four centuries.
Filling a major gap in historical, literary, and post-colonial scholarship, "Imperialisms" examines the identity statements of the world's major imper...
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Territories of the Psyche: The Fiction of Jean Rhys
ISBN: 9781349529353 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study places Jean Rhys's fiction for the first time within the context of interrelated perspectives in modern psychoanalysis, to demonstrate how her narratives powerfully enact primitive and dynamic psychological states.
This study places Jean Rhys's fiction for the first time within the context of interrelated perspectives in modern psychoanalysis, to demonstrate how ...
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D. H. Lawrence's Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader
ISBN: 9781349530670 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charles Burack argues that Lawrence's major novels, beginning with The Rainbow , are structured as religious initiation rites that attempt to break down the reader's normative mindset and to evoke new, numinous experiences of self and world.
Charles Burack argues that Lawrence's major novels, beginning with The Rainbow , are structured as religious initiation rites that attempt to break do...
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Random Destinations: Escaping the Holocaust and Starting Life Anew
ISBN: 9781349531455 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Random Destinations" links social and political history with literature in its analysis of the ways in which novels and short stories portray the subsequent lives and problems of those who managed to leave Central Europe in the 1930s following the rise of Nazism.
"Random Destinations" links social and political history with literature in its analysis of the ways in which novels and short stories portray the sub...
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Conrad's Charlie Marlow: A New Approach to "Heart of Darkness" and Lord Jim
ISBN: 9781349531578 / Angielski / Miękka / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study approaches Marlow not simply as a literary device but as one of the greatest character creations in literature, an understanding of whose inner conflicts newly illuminates the structure of his narrations, his interactions with his auditors, and the thematic ambiguity of his tales.
This study approaches Marlow not simply as a literary device but as one of the greatest character creations in literature, an understanding of whose i...
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Queer Popular Culture: Literature, Media, Film, and Television
ISBN: 9781349535590 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection addresses the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. Articles cover the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of lesbian chic, and the expansion of representations of blackness alongside work on queer, Taiwanese, online communities; a transgender Israeli pop star; and film mimicry in Kerala, India.
This collection addresses the politics of queer representation in multiple contexts. Articles cover the rise of the queer cowboy, the emergence of les...
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The Latino/A Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature
ISBN: 9781349537983 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, "The Latino/a Canon "challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.
In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, "The Latino/a Canon "challenges the ways t...
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Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781349538621 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a literary criticism of the last decade. This timely text has been long in coming as U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has grown exponentially throughout U.S universities since 1995.
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a lite...
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Benn-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung
ISBN: 9783476024343 / Niemiecki / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gottfried Benns Doppelrolle als Dichter und Arzt ist neben der Einzigartigkeit seiner Lyrik, der radikalen Modernitat seiner Prosa und der zeitgeschichtlichen Brisanz der Briefwechsel einer der Grunde fur seine bis heute anhaltende Wirkungskraft. Das erste umfassende Handbuch beleuchtet historische und biografische Hintergrunde, analysiert das Werk und gibt einen Uberblick uber literarische, geistes- und naturwissenschaftliche Stromungen, in deren Spannungsfeld sich Benns Texte bewegen. Neben detaillierten Einzelinterpretationen liegt ein Schwerpunkt auf der Darstellung von Benns Asthetik und...
Gottfried Benns Doppelrolle als Dichter und Arzt ist neben der Einzigartigkeit seiner Lyrik, der radikalen Modernitat seiner Prosa und der zeitgeschic...
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Dada & Surrealism
ISBN: 9781138241657 / Angielski / Twarda / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism. It explores the two movements and their cultural significance. It also looks at those who called themselves Dadaists and Surrealists, including their aims and achievements. In doing so, the book identifies the meaning that the two terms have acquired, which is often remote from the claims advanced by the chief adherents of each movement. This book will be a valuable resource to those studying Dada and Surrealism and its relationship to modern literature.
First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism. It explores the two movements and their cultural significance. I... |
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Das Drama Des Naturalismus
ISBN: 9783476140753 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zwei Ereignisse pragten das Denken der Naturalisten vornehmlich - der unerhorte Fortschritt auf dem Gebiet der Naturwissenschaften und das Aufkommen des Sozialismus in Westeuropa.
Zwei Ereignisse pragten das Denken der Naturalisten vornehmlich - der unerhorte Fortschritt auf dem Gebiet der Naturwissenschaften und das Aufkommen d...
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Alpinismus - Andinismus: Gebirgslandschaften in Europäischer Und Lateinamerikanischer Literatur
ISBN: 9783476026699 / Niemiecki / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Auch in der Weltliteratur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts wird der Berg zu einem besonderen Ort, der an Transgression gekoppelte Aufstieg zu einer Erkenntnisbewegung und das sowohl in den Alpen als auch in den Anden. Die komparatistisch angelegte Studie stellt sich den Herausforderungen eines interkulturellen Vergleichs und spurt den Zusammenhangen europaischer und lateinamerikanischer Literatur nach, um nicht nur kulturspezifische Charakteristika herauszuarbeiten, sondern kulturubergreifende Funktionen literarischer Gebirgslandschaften zu identifizieren. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei v.a....
Auch in der Weltliteratur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts wird der Berg zu einem besonderen Ort, der an Transgression gekoppelte Aufstieg zu einer Erkenn...
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Routledge Revivals: David Rabe (1988): A Stage History and a Primary and Secondary Bibliography
ISBN: 9781138281714 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. As the first full-length work on Rabe, this book laid the groundwork for later critical and biographical studies. The first part consists of an essay that covers three sections: a short biography, a summary and evaluation of his formative journalism for the New Haven Register, and a detailed and cohesive stage history of his work. The second part presents the most comprehensive and authoritative primary bibliography of Rabe to date, with... In the twenty years that preceded the publication of this book in 1988, David Rabe was in the vanguard of playwrights who shaped American theatre. ... |
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Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt: Knitting the Net of Culture
ISBN: 9781349365616 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, and literature which inform Byatt's novels. Steveker explores the concepts of identity constructed in the novels, showing them to be deeply rooted in British literary history and cultural memory.
This book provides innovative readings of the key texts of A.S. Byatt's oeuvre by analysing the negotiations of individual identity, cultural memory, ...
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