The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin
ISBN: 9781595340184 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the heart of "The Land's Wild Music" is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of place -- Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin -- author Mark Tredinnick considers how writers transmute the power of nature into words. Each author is profiled in a separate chapter written in rich, engaging prose that reads like the best journalism, and Tredinnick concludes with his own thoughts on what it takes to be "an authentic witness of place."
At the heart of "The Land's Wild Music" is an examination of the relationship between writers and their. Interviewing four great American writers of p...
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107,15 zł |
Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: An Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment
ISBN: 9781498521628 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the first book to address Hogan's poetry and prose primarily from ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of ecofeminism, environmental justice, postcolonial ecocriticism, and animal studies). It also is unique for the reason that it is a comparative study of the work of Hogan and writings by Taiwanese environmental writers, scholars, and activists. Chapter One, which serves as the introduction to the book,...
Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study o...
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454,28 zł |
Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks
ISBN: 9780813922560 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lines on the Land Writers, Art, and the National Parks Scott Herring The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry Jackson once complained of the skepticism with which early descriptions of Yellowstone were met: the place was too wondrous to be believed. The public demanded proof, and a host of artists and writers obliged. These early explorers possessed a vigorous devotion to the young nation's wilderness--the naturalist John Muir famously toured the land from Wisconsin to Florida on foot--and through their work established aesthetic categories that exist to... Lines on the Land Writers, Art, and the National Parks Scott Herring The nineteenth-century photographer William Henry J... |
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367,04 zł |
Houses: New and Selected Poems by Don Barkin
ISBN: 9781943826223 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New and Selected poems by Don Barkin, a poet whose last collection was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards. These poems are both domestic and accessible, including many in rhyme and meter (the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine wrote that Barkin's poems show "wonderful skill"). These poems, written over a quarter century, have appeared in some of the country’s most prestigious literary magazines, including Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly Review, the North American Review, and Prairie Schooner. They look back to a New Hampshire boyhood, and... New and Selected poems by Don Barkin, a poet whose last collection was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards. These poems are both ... |
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77,30 zł |
Laden Choirs: The Fiction of Patrick White
ISBN: 9780813155494 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have provoked so many contradictory judgments. Now Peter Wolfe has written the first book-length study of the work of this brilliant and haunting novelist. The study offers a subtle, penetrating examination of White's style, his skill in building narrative tension, and also the depth and... In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The E... |
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91,39 zł |
Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities: Postcolonial Approaches
ISBN: 9781138827721 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism,... This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the hist... |
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761,60 zł |
Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780813936918 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The anthropogenic climate change that has impacted the Earth has also affected our literature, but criticism of the contemporary novel has not adequately recognized the literary response to this level of environmental crisis. Ecocriticism's theories of place and planet, meanwhile, are troubled by a... Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, ... |
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397,10 zł |
Anthropocene Fictions: The Novel in a Time of Climate Change
ISBN: 9780813936925 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, melting polar ice caps, and mass extinction. This period of observable human impact on the Earth's ecosystems has been called the Anthropocene Age. The anthropogenic climate change that has impacted the Earth has also affected our literature, but criticism of the contemporary novel has not adequately recognized the literary response to this level of environmental crisis. Ecocriticism's theories of place and planet, meanwhile, are troubled by a... Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have transformed the Earth's atmosphere, committing our planet to more extreme weather, rising sea levels, ... |
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183,67 zł |
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
ISBN: 9780813936888 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond... The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histo... |
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364,04 zł |
Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
ISBN: 9780813936901 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histories. Arguing for a more complex account of such calamities, Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond... The calamitous impacts of climate change that are beginning to be felt around the world today expose the inextricability of human and natural histo... |
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153,60 zł |
Lex Naturalis v1
ISBN: 9781935625209 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lex Naturalis publishes articles that consider the relevance of natural law theory to contemporary philosophical and legal discussions and debates. With its roots in classical and medieval ideas about ethics and the "good," natural law continues to be a vital source of moral insight for a postmodern society.
Lex Naturalis publishes articles that consider the relevance of natural law theory to contemporary philosophical and legal discussions and debates. Wi...
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192,39 zł |
Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French
ISBN: 9781498517317 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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443,59 zł |
Transatlantic Literary Ecologies: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Atlantic World
ISBN: 9781472450203 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century transatlantic socioenvironmental issues involving such topics as the contemporary fur and timber trades, colonialism and agricultural "improvement," literary discourses on conservation, and the consequences of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and urban environmental activism. The chapters move from... Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each... |
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710,82 zł |
Birds and Other Creatures in Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare, Descartes, and Animal Studies
ISBN: 9781138673007 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures were categorized hierarchically. However, post-Cartesian readings of Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature have misunderstood Renaissance hierarchical creaturely relations, including human relations. Using critical animal studies work and new materialist theory, Bach argues that attending closely to creatures and objects in texts by... This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It ... |
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761,60 zł |
Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science
ISBN: 9780820704999 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what changes do we see in representations of soil as reflected in the language and stories during that time? This collection brings focused scholarly attention to conceptions of soil in the early modern period, both as a symbol and as a feature of the physical world, aiming to correct faulty assumptions that cloud our understanding of early modern ecological thought: that natural resources were then poorly understood and recklessly managed, and that...
How does soil, as an ecological element, shape culture? With the sixteenth-century shift in England from an agrarian economy to a trade economy, what ...
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336,44 zł |
Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies
ISBN: 9781138230330 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the manifold alignments and frequent co-constitutions of children and pets in our families, our cultures, and our societies. The cultural politics of power shaping relationships between children, pets, and adults inform the wide range of essays included in this collection, as they explore issues such as protection, discipline, mastery, wildness, play, and domestication. The volume use the frequent social and cultural intersections between children and... Bringing together new perspectives in childhood studies and animal studies, this book is the first collection to critically address the mani... |
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660,05 zł |
The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture
ISBN: 9781472479655 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The... During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the Eur... |
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761,60 zł |
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature
ISBN: 9781498530958 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests itself and large-scale natural resource extraction has expanded into formerly remote areas that seemed beyond the reach of industrialization. Scientists and popular culture alike have turned to the term "Anthropocene" to capture the global scale of environmental and even geological transformations that humans have carried out over the last two centuries. The chapters in Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America examine the...
Worldwide environmental crisis has become increasingly visible over the last few decades as the full scope of anthropogenic climate change manifests i...
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561,17 zł |
Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire
ISBN: 9781498526753 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do we find so many references to nature and the environment in the many Caribbean literary texts that try to come to terms with the contemporary age of globalization? Even when these novels and poems do not seem to be concerned with environmental issues at all, they abound with fragrant, creepy or dark references to flowers, insects, trees, gardens, and mud. This book discusses a range of Anglophone and Dutch-language Caribbean literary texts to propose an answer. It shows that some writers evoke nature to question oppressive notions of what is natural, and what is not, when it comes to...
Why do we find so many references to nature and the environment in the many Caribbean literary texts that try to come to terms with the contemporary a...
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454,28 zł |
The Last Harvest
ISBN: 9781473335424 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,96 zł |