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Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee's Transnational Cinema
ISBN: 9781433119323 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee s Transnational Cinema takes a unique approach to the study of transnational cinema by examining the representation of Chinese identity in Ang Lee s films and the public discourse from various audience communities. This book focuses on his transnational films Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Lust, Caution (2007) as two case studies. Providing a systematic analysis of audience discourse from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the Chinese diaspora, this study challenges ideological constructions of racial and ethnic identity,...
Theorizing Ambivalence in Ang Lee s Transnational Cinema takes a unique approach to the study of transnational cinema by examining the represen...
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414,41 |
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Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese «Germanistik»
ISBN: 9781433109348 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit through the academic study of the German language and literature in Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the national literary tradition allowed speakers of German to imagine their unity before the existence of the modern German state, but the concept for spirit also gained various nuances in the works of such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Hermann Hesse. Moreover, throughout the...
Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit th...
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550,10 |
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Masculinities and Other Hopeless Causes at an All-Boys Catholic School
ISBN: 9781433115387 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We get our fixed or malleable notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hypersexualizing media gaze, and through the dictates of those great monoliths, Faith and Obedience within a/the Church. However, gender is also being formed in the well-worn halls and the ordered environment of classrooms: schools are the great throughways where gender gets most articulated bartered for and with during adolescence.
This book documents a year-long autoethnographic study in an all-boys Catholic secondary school. It elucidates how schooling helps form both... We get our fixed or malleable notions of sexuality and gender from a variety of sources: family expectations, a hypersexualizing media gaze, and throu...
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696,70 |
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Artful Stories; The Teacher, the Student, and the Muse
ISBN: 9781433114083 / Angielski / Twarda / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have made names for themselves internationally. The book centers on their role as educators in their fields; their unique and individual journeys exemplify the classic role artists have (always) played as teachers. Artful Stories is a timely and profound work that captures the teacher-student dynamic. It fills a void by recognizing the contributions of Caribbean artists to U.S. and European artistic scholarship. This book will be a valuable...
These are the stories of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer who have ...
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749,70 |
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Unravelling Civilisation: European Travel and Travel Writing
ISBN: 9789052012353 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a collection of contributions about the history and practice of travel and travel writing from a variety of academic disciplines including anthropology, history, linguistics and literary criticism. It brings together scholars from over ten different countries and reflects on what travel is and how travel writings function. It traces the history of travel and travel writing and the notion or idea of a European civilisation that permeates performances and perceptions. The notion of Europe appears as a set of quality standards as well as guidelines for experiences against which...
This volume is a collection of contributions about the history and practice of travel and travel writing from a variety of academic disciplines includ...
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428,62 |
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Casting Off the Shackles of Family: Ibsen's Nora Figure in Modern Chinese Literature, 1918-1942
ISBN: 9780820433448 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen s play A Doll House, was a model for liberal-thinking Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Nora-like figures appeared often in modern Chinese literature to illustrate the issue of women s emancipation. Casting Off the Shackles of Family explores the reception and transformation of the Nora theme in the works of Lu Hsun, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and other May Fourth writers. In particular, it uses female heroic journey theories to trace women s pursuit of independence and freedom in modern China."
Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen s play A Doll House, was a model for liberal-thinking Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s ...
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442,82 |
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The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God
ISBN: 9780820440392 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Original sin, widely denied today, is nevertheless the condition in which our spiritual life begins. Fetal psychology helps one see original sin as a psychic negation of the created reflections in Christ of the traits of divine love within the Trinity. Hence, only through Christ can such damage be healed. But before we can live in the full freedom and power of the Holy Spirit, we must relive, in Jesus and as He did, all that God led His people through, from the fall of Adam till Jesus' death and resurrection. Through the spiritual sense of the Old Testament, each word of which speaks of...
Original sin, widely denied today, is nevertheless the condition in which our spiritual life begins. Fetal psychology helps one see original sin as a ...
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264,02 |
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African American Preaching: The Contribution of Dr. Gardner C. Taylor
ISBN: 9780820431277 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four centuries of African American preaching has provided hope, healing, and heaven for people from every walk of life. Many notable men and women of African American lineage have contributed, through the art of preaching, to the biblical emancipation and spiritual liberation of their parishioners. In African American Preaching: The Contribution of Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, Gerald Lamont Thomas offers a historical overview of African American preaching and its effect on the cultural legacy of black people, noting the various styles and genius of pulpit orators. The book s focus is on the...
Four centuries of African American preaching has provided hope, healing, and heaven for people from every walk of life. Many notable men and women of ...
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358,11 |
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Living Reading: Exploring the Lives of Reading Teachers
ISBN: 9780820445601 / Angielski / Twarda / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living Reading is a qualitative research study of the ways teachers form and enact notions of literacy through participation in a subject-area association that places reading at the heart of its mission. This study explores the gendered and historical roots of the discipline of reading and reading instruction in the United States, and it demonstrates how the professional development opportunities offered by this organization (and others like it) support and constrain educational reform initiatives. Through -living reading- teacher-members seek spiritual affirmation and renewal as well...
Living Reading is a qualitative research study of the ways teachers form and enact notions of literacy through participation in a subject-area ...
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151,91 |
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The Politics of Early Childhood Education: Third Printing
ISBN: 9780820441641 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The basic premise of this book is simple it brings together early childhood and cultural-studies professionals who are willing to provide a kaleidoscope of views capable of challenging the sanctity of the early childhood western lens. Marianne Bloch, Hedy Chang, Amos Hatch, Henry Giroux, Jan Jipson, Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Kessler, Sally Lubeck, Shirley Steinberg, Beth Blue Swadener, Nila Rinehardt, and Lourdes Diaz Soto call for a move toward the critical, toward the multicultural, toward the dialogic, toward the feminist, toward the personal, with the others, with the silenced, and in...
The basic premise of this book is simple it brings together early childhood and cultural-studies professionals who are willing to provide a kaleidosco...
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185,40 |
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Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law
ISBN: 9780820451572 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Owning Culture demonstrates how intellectual property law has expanded to allow for private ownership of a remarkable array of things, from the patenting of human genes linked to breast cancer to the trademarking of the phrases -home style- and -freedom of ownership.- This book examines diverse areas of contemporary life affected by intellectual property law, including sampling practices in hip-hop music, the appropriation of Third World indigenous knowledge about the medical uses of plants, the effects of seed patenting on farming, and the impact of copyright law on folk music-making....
Owning Culture demonstrates how intellectual property law has expanded to allow for private ownership of a remarkable array of things, from the...
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198,59 |
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A Students' Guide to African American Literature: 1760 to the Present
ISBN: 9780820455211 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Students Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present is designed to assist college students (and others) who are relative novices to the study of African American literature. Focusing on the prose tradition (from early autobiographical narratives to contemporary fiction), the author highlights themes, issues, and motifs peculiar to, and recurring in, African American literature, while providing students with more specific information on a number of key texts. Each chapter comes with suggestions for assignments and a selected bibliography for further research. The book...
A Students Guide to African American Literature, 1760 to the Present is designed to assist college students (and others) who are relative novic...
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185,40 |
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Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?: Film as Cultural Marker in France and Hollywood
ISBN: 9780820461175 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The long love-hate relationship between the United States and France is a curious one that derives from misconceptions, dissimilar economic imperatives, and genuinely different cultural patterns. Didn t You Used to Be Depardieu? identifies and analyzes these differences through the contrast of American film remakes and the French originals."
The long love-hate relationship between the United States and France is a curious one that derives from misconceptions, dissimilar economic imperative...
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185,40 |
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Becoming Critical Researchers: Literacy and Empowerment for Urban Youth
ISBN: 9780820461991 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researchers of popular culture. Drawing on new literacy studies, critical pedagogy, and sociocultural learning theory, this book documents the changes in student participation within a critical research-focused community of practice. These changes include the acquisition and development of academic and critical literacies and the resulting translations of these literacies into increased academic performance, greater access to college, and commitment to...
Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researche...
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185,40 |
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Small-Town Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Living Lost Faith
ISBN: 9780820462233 / Angielski / Twarda / 151 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Protestant mentality in Germany underwent much change during the nineteenth century. Cultural forces accompanying the process of modernization helped to make widespread an attitude of indifference toward Protestant Christianity. German Protestants, however, kept their confessional distinctiveness and never assumed a completely post-Christian sense of themselves. The experience of learning the Protestant faith as a child was crucial to preserving the Protestant identity. For many adults, especially in small-town settings, remaining a Protestant Christian meant living lost faith based upon...
Protestant mentality in Germany underwent much change during the nineteenth century. Cultural forces accompanying the process of modernization helped ...
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263,51 |
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History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900-1950
ISBN: 9780820467207 / Angielski / Miękka / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900-1950 examines issues of Americanization, immigration, and school response through the eyes of Irish, Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrant female students four of Chicago s major immigrant communities. One of the book s conclusions is that gender and the lack of opportunity to attend school affected educational attainment more than ethnic differences."
History of Immigrant Female Students in Chicago Public Schools, 1900-1950 examines issues of Americanization, immigration, and school response ...
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131,63 |
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Woman as Witness: Essays on Testimonial Literature by Latin American Women
ISBN: 9780820463247 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom writing of the 1980s and 1990s; women have successfully assimilated this form and currently dominate the testimonial genre in Latin America. The essays in this volume provide an orientation to the woman-centered view of this genre by inquiring into the critical and theoretical debate on the subject as well as analyzing specific nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American women s testimonial texts. Woman as Witness also includes...
Testimonial narrative is considered to be both a constant in Latin American literature, as well as one of the most prominent features of the post-boom...
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339,59 |
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Innovation and Tradition: The Arts, Humanities, and the Knowledge Economy
ISBN: 9780820471402 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowledge economy policies typically seek to harness higher education to economic outcomes. Tensions between the arts and humanities and the commercial imperatives of the knowledge economy are growing. This book explores how these tensions are played out within international and national higher education policies, within university arts and humanities departments and within the process of writing itself. Essays in this collection investigate the impact of the knowledge economy phenomenon on the arts and humanities and suggest both practical and creative ways of responding to this global...
Knowledge economy policies typically seek to harness higher education to economic outcomes. Tensions between the arts and humanities and the commercia...
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159,02 |
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African American Preaching: The Contribution of Dr. Gardner C. Taylor
ISBN: 9780820474120 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four centuries of African American preaching has provided hope, healing, and heaven for people from every walk of life. Many notable men and women of African American lineage have contributed, through the art of preaching, to the biblical emancipation and spiritual liberation of their parishioners. In African American Preaching: The Contribution of Dr. Gardner C. Taylor, Gerald Lamont Thomas offers a historical overview of African American preaching and its effect on the cultural legacy of black people, noting the various styles and genius of pulpit orators. The book s focus is on the...
Four centuries of African American preaching has provided hope, healing, and heaven for people from every walk of life. Many notable men and women of ...
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139,24 |
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Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media
ISBN: 9780820479361 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queer Girls and Popular Culture explores relationships between media representations and the creative media receptions of lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and young adults. Drawing upon examples from a wide range of media including television, film, magazines, Internet, and music, this book pays critical attention to the emergence of visual images and narratives of girls desiring girls. Framed as a dialogue, the voices of queer girls are interpreted in response to their increasing public visibility and commodification within mainstream media as well as the...
Queer Girls and Popular Culture explores relationships between media representations and the creative media receptions of lesbian, bisexual, tr...
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185,40 |
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