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Modernism: A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930
ISBN: 9780140138320 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, science, politics and philosophy.
An exploration of the ideas, groupings and the social tensions that shaped the transformation of life caused by the changes of modernity in art, scien...
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95,74 zł |
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Shakespeare's Words : A Glossary and Language Companion
ISBN: 9780140291179 / Angielski / Miękka / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience. It features different panels that look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address.
Suitable for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by modern audience...
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108,11 zł |
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The Gunter Grass Reader
ISBN: 9780156029926 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Selected from the vast range of his work, the writings included in this anthology trace Gunter Grass's development as a writer, and with it the history of a nation coming to terms with its past.
Excerpts from Grass's major novels-from The Tin Drum to Crabwalk-are included, as are numerous short fictions, essays, and poems, many of which have never appeared before in English. Grass's gifts as an observer of and participant in the social and political landscape are justly celebrated, as are his inimitable sense of humor, his consistent defense of the disadvantaged, and his mastery of the... Selected from the vast range of his work, the writings included in this anthology trace Gunter Grass's development as a writer, and with it the histor...
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98,04 zł |
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The Mrs. Dalloway Reader
ISBN: 9780156030151 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal entries and letters by Virginia Woolf relating to the book's genesis and writing. The distinguished novelist Francine Prose has selected these pieces as well as essays and appreciations, critical views, and commentary by writers famous and unknown. Now with additional scholarly commentary by Mark Hussey, professor of English at Pace University, this complete volume illuminates the creation of a celebrated story and the genius of its author....
This first volume of its kind contains the complete text of and guide to Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, plus Mrs. Dalloway's Party and numerous journal...
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161,92 zł |
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Crimes of Writing : Problems in the Containment of Representation
ISBN: 9780195066173 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pioneering book explores a series of problems regarding the containment of representation. Stewart focuses on specific cases of "crimes of writing"--the forgeries of George Psalmanazar, the production of "fakelore," the "ballad scandals" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the imposture of Thomas Chatterton, and contemporary legislation regarding graffiti and pornography. In this way, she emphasizes the issues which arise once language is...
From the origins of modern copyright in early eighteenth-century culture to the efforts to represent nature and death in postmodern fiction, this pion...
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1313,42 zł |
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The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780195107104 / Angielski / Twarda / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For what scandalous reason was the original publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn delayed? What were the names of Samuel Clemens pets? How are his attitudes towards politics and religion revealed in his work? Find the answers to these questions and many more in The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain, which encapsulates the most important scholarship on Twains life, his works, and his times.
Organized in an A-Z format, the volume contains entries on all of his works, people and places related to his biography, and analyses of Twains takes on a variety of topics, from confidence... For what scandalous reason was the original publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn delayed? What were the names of Samuel Clemens pets? How...
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625,46 zł |
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature : 5 volumes: print and e-reference editions available
ISBN: 9780195169218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the present, focusing on the writers and the major texts of what are now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. In five hundred substantial essays written by major scholars, the Encyclopedia of British Literature includes biographies of nearly four hundred individual authors and a hundred topical essays with detailed analyses of particular themes, movements, genres, and institutions whose impact upon the writing or the reading of...
From folk ballads to film scripts, this new five-volume encyclopedia covers the entire history of British literature from the seventh century to the p...
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3060,65 zł |
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Romantic Poetry by Women: A Bibliography, 1770-1835
ISBN: 9780198112396 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first major bibliography of women's writings of the Romantic period, providing exhaustive coverage of the volumes of verse written by women in English during this crucial period. The Bibliography lists 1,403 works (and 2,585 editions) by about 900 authors and reveals for the first time the scale of the involvement of women in the Romantic movement. It covers publications of eight pages and longer, including publications in foreign languages and translations from foreign languages, and is fully indexed and cross-referenced with complete publication details. Jackson's...
This book is the first major bibliography of women's writings of the Romantic period, providing exhaustive coverage of the volumes of verse written by...
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542,46 zł |
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England the Nation : Language, Literature, and National Identity, 1290-1340
ISBN: 9780198122791 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turville-Petre surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Chaucer. He explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to the outbreak of the Hundred Years War expressed their concepts of England as a nation, and how they exploited the association between nation, people, and language. The study forms a significant contribution to current debates on nationalism.
Turville-Petre surveys the wide range of writings by the generation before Chaucer. He explores how English writers in the half-century leading up to ...
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1307,12 zł |
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Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott
ISBN: 9780198127185 / Angielski / Twarda / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott
Notes and Index to Sir Herbert Grierson's Edition of the Letters of Sir Walter Scott
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3006,38 zł |
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Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
ISBN: 9780198159087 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their first introduction to the rudiments of Latin to the specialized studies of their later years, the pupils of humanist schools were trained to use commonplace-books. The common-place book mapped and resourced Renaissance culture's moral thinking, its accepted strategies of argumentation, its rhetoric, and its deployment of knowledge. In this study, Ann Moss investigates the evolution of the commonplace-book from its medieval antecedents, through...
Commonplace-books were the information-organizers of Early Modern Europe, notebooks of quotations methodically arranged for easy retrieval. From their...
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1372,48 zł |
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The Shakespeare First Folio: The History of the Book : Volume I: An Account of the First Folio Based on its Sales and Prices 1623-2000
ISBN: 9780198187691 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While vast amounts have been written about the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio, this volume breaks new ground in its account of the price and sales history of the books, placing this in the context both of Shakespeare's standing and of the contemporary world of antiquarian book sales. It charts the number and distribution of copies at the beginning and end of the twentieth century, surveys the nineteen facsimile editions since 1807, and assesses earlier listings of the work since 1824, including Sidney Lee's Census (1902). It also indicates the history of the volumes'...
While vast amounts have been written about the publication of the Shakespeare First Folio, this volume breaks new ground in its account of the price a...
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2124,08 zł |
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Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780226472034 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory--giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler,...
Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory--giving tens...
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139,06 zł |
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The Columbia Literary History of the United States
ISBN: 9780231058124 / Angielski / Twarda / 1263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume--one of the century's most important books in American studies--extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the...
For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave ...
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706,03 zł |
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American Literary Criticism from the Thirties to the Eighties
ISBN: 9780231064279 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides accounts of thirteen American critical schools and movements of the period from the early 1930s to the mid- 1980s. Each chapter presents a history of a specific school or movement, covering pertinent social and cultural backgrounds, main figures and texts, key philosophical and critical theories and practices and significant relations with allied and antagonistic contemporaneous movements both here and abroad.
This book provides accounts of thirteen American critical schools and movements of the period from the early 1930s to the mid- 1980s. Each chapter pre...
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171,16 zł |
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Scenes of Seduction : Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780231072076 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse o... |
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160,46 zł |
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The Columbia History of the American Novel
ISBN: 9780231073608 / Angielski / Twarda / 905 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first history of America's major literary form offers new views of our literary history and a sophisticated examination of areas of fiction that have only recently begun to receive attention.
The first history of America's major literary form offers new views of our literary history and a sophisticated examination of areas of fiction that h...
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556,27 zł |
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Ecological Literary Criticism : Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind
ISBN: 9780231100298 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kroeber argues that literary criticism needs to reestablish connections to a wide range of social activities, especially the thinking of contemporary scientists. This new kind of criticism, "ecological literary criticism," sets out to correct the abstractions of current theorizing about literature, and to make humanistic studies more socially responsible. Though applicable to any writer of any period, Kroeber points out that the proto-ecological tendencies of the English Romantic poets make them especially useful as a starting point for this approach. Since the Romantics believed that...
Kroeber argues that literary criticism needs to reestablish connections to a wide range of social activities, especially the thinking of contemporary ...
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149,76 zł |
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The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story
ISBN: 9780231110983 / Angielski / Twarda / 952 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme, such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces on individual writers and their work, including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, Andre Debus, Zora Neal Hurston, Anne Beattie, Bharati Mukherjee, J. D. Salinger, and...
Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfant's brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics i...
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599,06 zł |
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The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
ISBN: 9780231113144 / Angielski / Twarda / 700 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic essays introduce each geographical section with historical overviews and surveys of persistent themes in the literature examined, including nationalism,...
This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the Englis...
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599,06 zł |
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