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Frank O'Connor at Work
ISBN: 9781349107797 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frank O'Connor was a most painstaking writer, sometimes taking up to ten years to revise and polish a story. This book attempts to examine the process and tries to reveal something about O'Connor's perception of his craft and the environment from which his art emerged.
Frank O'Connor was a most painstaking writer, sometimes taking up to ten years to revise and polish a story. This book attempts to examine the process...
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Pound in Multiple Perspective: A Collection of Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781349111961 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book consists of seven essays exploring the relationship between Pound and Browning, Yeats, Ford, Lewis, Joyce, Eliot and American epic tradition. Each essay reconsiders and reassesses one aspect of the poet, his work and his literary connections in the light of fresh insight and new research.
The book consists of seven essays exploring the relationship between Pound and Browning, Yeats, Ford, Lewis, Joyce, Eliot and American epic tradition....
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Modern Slovak Prose: Fiction Since 1954
ISBN: 9781349112906 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Slovak Prose is a collection of essays based on papers delivered at a symposium at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Although few major Slovak writers published during the 1970s 'normalisation' period after the Warsaw Pact intervention, Slovak literature did not stagnate like Czech literature. The essays in this volume cover the whole period from the death throes of socialist realism to the lively, sophisticated, cosmopolitan fiction of the late 1970s and 1980s. The cut-off date is 1988. All the prose writers considered important by the Slovaks themselves and by...
Modern Slovak Prose is a collection of essays based on papers delivered at a symposium at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Although f...
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The Letters of Brendan Behan
ISBN: 9781349114900 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical study of author Brendan Behan and his work, through collected letters, correspondence, material from previous publications and personal reminiscences. E.H.Mikhail has published work on other literary figures including "James Joyce: Interviews and Recollections."
A critical study of author Brendan Behan and his work, through collected letters, correspondence, material from previous publications and personal rem...
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German Writers and Politics 1918-39
ISBN: 9781349118175 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers. The essays in this volume focus on questions such as the writers' relationship to political parties and ideology, their treatment of the legacy of World War I, and their response to the rise of fascism.
Political changes between 1918 and 1939 had important implications for German writers. The essays in this volume focus on questions such as the writer...
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Alexander Zinoviev: An Introduction to His Work
ISBN: 9781349124855 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's inability to understand it. It is the purpose of this book to trace the development of his thinking via a chronological analysis of his most important works.
Zinoviev's twin themes are the nature of Soviet communist society and the West's inability to understand it. It is the purpose of this book to trace t...
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Literature of Crisis, 1910-22: Howards End, Heartbreak House, Women in Love and the Waste Land
ISBN: 9781349174515 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The English Novel of History and Society, 1940-80: Richard Hughes, Henry Green, Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, V. S. Naipaul
ISBN: 9781349175147 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Short Stories and Short Fictions, 1880-1980
ISBN: 9781349176878 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Critical Introduction to Henry Green's Novels: The Living Vision
ISBN: 9781349182237 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Victorian Bloomsbury: Volume 1: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group
ISBN: 9781349185351 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group...S P Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary traditions absorbed by this group.' Richard Ellman 'This is more detailed, more considered, more extensive, and therefore far more valuable than anything of the kind we have had before...required reading for anyone professing a serious interest in Bloomsbury.' Andrew McNellie This first volume of a three-volume study of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group describes the intellectual, family and Cambridge backgrounds of Bloomsbury as...
'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group...S P Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary tra...
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The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9781349186211 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Katherine Mansfield was a formidable critic: astute, witty and something more - she had, as Middleton Murry put it, an extraordinary style and critical verve, mastery and 'sureness of touch'. This is the first scholarly edition of her critical writings. A substantial introduction sets the scene for an understanding of Katherine Mansfield's position as a woman writer on the edge of, but never completely accepted by, Bloomsbury; responding to the pressures of the First World War, illness and exile, and attempting to reconcile the facts of life with the truths of fiction. Careful annotation...
Katherine Mansfield was a formidable critic: astute, witty and something more - she had, as Middleton Murry put it, an extraordinary style and critica...
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D. H. Lawrence: New Studies
ISBN: 9781349186976 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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In Pursuit of Doris Lessing: Nine Nations Reading
ISBN: 9781349207565 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of essays that also provide a provocative overview of Lessing's long career from The Grass Is Singing, the first of a series of African and woman-centered politically radical works, to her latest galactic and politically conservative works. Nine different Lessings emerge from these essays, forcing us to question received propositions about the universality of literature and the stability of the text and uncovering and recovering in the process the...
The phenomenon of Doris Lessing's global reputation and readership is addressed for the first time in In Pursuit of Doris Lessing through a series of ...
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Camus's l'Etranger: Fifty Years on
ISBN: 9781349220052 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Britain and the United States. Included are essays by prominent French and English-language authors for whom the novel has been an influential expression of contemporary sensibility. Other essays include feminist interpretations of Meursault, studies of Camus's narrative form, and explorations of the Algerian setting of the novel. Comparative studies show Camus's relation to the New Novel, to Greene and Orwell, to Jules Roy, and to Sartre.
These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Brit...
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The Politics of Style in the Fiction of Balzac, Beckett and Cortázar
ISBN: 9781349222964 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An investigation of the novel, with particular reference to the works of Balzac, Beckett and Cortazar.
An investigation of the novel, with particular reference to the works of Balzac, Beckett and Cortazar.
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The Nouveau Roman: Fiction, Theory and Politics
ISBN: 9781349223411 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Nouveau Roman writers have been actively involved in the theory as well as the practice of fiction, participating in a series of vigorous debates on issues such as the political significance of literature, formalism and structuralism, the status of the author, etc. This study discusses Robbe-Grillet, Sarraute, Simon, Butor and Ricardou, analysing both the interaction of their own theory and fiction and their reactions to the work of figures such as Sartre, Barthes, Lvi-Strauss, Sollers and Kristeva.
The Nouveau Roman writers have been actively involved in the theory as well as the practice of fiction, participating in a series of vigorous debates ...
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The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror
ISBN: 9781349225378 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the way in which the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritual wholeness. There is new material dealing with C.S. Lewis's political writings, especially the correspondences between his thriller, That Hideous Strength and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and some new insights into Lewis's attitudes to women.
This book examines the way in which the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritu...
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A. J. P. Taylor: The Traitor Within the Gates
ISBN: 9781349230259 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Literature and the Philosophy of Intention
ISBN: 9781349272990 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of sources - American New Criticism, European Structuralism and various kinds of postmodernist theory. It enlists the aid of Kantian aesthetics and contemporary philosophy of language and action, as well as studying the play on intention in the manipulation of character and action in the work of Shakespeare and other English writers from 1600 to the present day.
This book attempts to reinstate the importance of authorial intention by examining arguments against it from a variety of sources - American New Criti...
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