Conrad and Nature: Essays
ISBN: 9781138710122 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the shadowy wilderness of Africa in Heart of Darkness to the frozen expanse of Russia in Under Western Eyes, natural landscapes and human attitudes toward nature play an important part in the development and meaning of Joseph Conrad's fiction. This collection of twelve original essays by established and emerging scholars, seeks to explore these landscapes in Conrad's work and serves as a look into our own recent history at a pivotal time us as we come to realize how our actions, choices and even our mere presence directly impacts the natural world that delicately sustains us. From the shadowy wilderness of Africa in Heart of Darkness to the frozen expanse of Russia in Under Western Eyes, natural landscapes and human atti... |
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660,05 zł |
Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780813940618 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and ...
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397,10 zł |
Recomposing Ecopoetics: North American Poetry of the Self-Conscious Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780813940625 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. These poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does.
Analyses work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets, all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and ...
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183,67 zł |
Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
ISBN: 9780813940830 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created in the early twentieth century. Through a combination of ecocriticism, urban studies, and historical geography, this book unveils the neglected urban context for seemingly natural landscapes in modernist poems.
Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green...
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336,98 zł |
Building Natures: Modern American Poetry, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning
ISBN: 9780813940847 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created in the early twentieth century. Through a combination of ecocriticism, urban studies, and historical geography, this book unveils the neglected urban context for seemingly natural landscapes in modernist poems.
Explores the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green...
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171,64 zł |
Water in Medieval Literature: An Ecocritical Reading
ISBN: 9781498539845 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination.
This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves ...
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555,83 zł |
Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
ISBN: 9780813941073 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy - as a territory of both matter and imagination - through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place.
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy...
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201,71 zł |
The Horse in Literature and Film: Uncovering a Transcultural Paradigm
ISBN: 9781498534918 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic meaning, cultural significance, and projective power of these animals.
This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts...
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502,38 zł |
Italy and the Environmental Humanities: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
ISBN: 9780813941066 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy - as a territory of both matter and imagination - through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place.
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy...
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397,10 zł |
Learning from Thoreau
ISBN: 9780820353432 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using both images and text, Andrew Menard offers a personal meditation on Thoreau's thought, its originality, and its influence on the modern environmental movement. He places Thoreau in dialogue with contemporary artists and thinkers and associates him with a rich variety of outdoor spaces.
Using both images and text, Andrew Menard offers a personal meditation on Thoreau's thought, its originality, and its influence on the modern environm...
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120,04 zł |
Twain at Sea: The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
ISBN: 9781512601510 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of Mark Twain's shipboard stories
An anthology of Mark Twain's shipboard stories
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101,55 zł |
The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer: Landscape, Literature and Buddhism
ISBN: 9781781886946 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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529,08 zł |
The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
ISBN: 9781946684240 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the ""long 1980s"". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life.
Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the ""long 1980s"". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment scholarl...
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186,61 zł |
The Argument about Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
ISBN: 9781946684233 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the ""long 1980s"". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment scholarly debate about material culture, high finance, and ecological degradation, shedding new light on the complex relationship between neoliberalism and cultural life.
Offers a broad study of the literature and culture of the ""long 1980s"". The Argument about Things in the 1980s contributes to of-the-moment scholarl...
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607,47 zł |
Nature Translated: Alexander Von Humboldt's Works in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781474439329 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how Alexander vonHumboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public persona as they reconfigured his works for readers in Britain and beyond.
This book shows how Alexander vonHumboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public pers...
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427,56 zł |
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America: Ecocritical Perspectives on Art, Film, and Literature
ISBN: 9781498530972 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context of the ongoing expansion of globalized neoliberal capitalism from and ecocritical perspective.
This book approaches portrayals of environmental crises in Latin American nations in literature, film, performance, and digital art within the context...
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240,50 zł |
T. S. Eliot & Organicism
ISBN: 9781942954606 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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585,23 zł |
Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis
ISBN: 9781350057029 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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558,51 zł |
Victorians and Their Animals: Beast on a Leash
ISBN: 9781138359567 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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660,05 zł |
Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern 'Fated Sky'
ISBN: 9781474442527 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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431,57 zł |