Zbirka: Literarna teorija
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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel(2022) PORAY-WYBRANOWSKA, JUSTYNAClimate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, IndVezava: Mehka72,92 € -
Restating Orientalism(2018) HALLAQ, WAEL (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)Wael B. Hallaq takes critique of Orientalism as a point of departure for rethinking the modern project. A remarkably ambitious attempt to overturn the foundations of a wide range of academic disciplines, Restating Orientalism exposes the depth of academiaVezava: Trda54,67 € -
Writing History, Writing Trauma(2014) LACAPRA, DOMINICKThis updated edition includes a substantive new preface that reconsiders some of the issues raised in the book.Vezava: Mehka43,07 € -
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Cognitive Stylistics(2002)This collection seeks to represent the state of the art in cognitive stylistics - a field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.Vezava: Mehka55,13 € -
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Luminous Presence(2021) PARSONS, ALEXANDRALuminous presence: Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Much of Jarman's powerful, imaginative response to HIV/AIDS can be found in his remarkable books, which Alexandra Parsons argues wVezava: Trda125,51 € -
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Animalities(2018) LUNDBLAD, MICHAELThis pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film.Vezava: Mehka47,78 € -
Analysis of William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis(2017) HUDSON, CHERYLBefore the publication of Nature’s Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, each following separate lines of development and maturity.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations(2017) ORR, JAMESMost likely written between 170 and 180, Meditations is a remarkable work, a unique insight into one of the most conscientious and able Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius, who ruled at the apex of the empire’s power.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers(2017) QUINN, RILEYKennedy sought to understand the social, economic, and military forces that shape great powers. While earlier scholars of international history had written about ‘great men’ and their achievements, Kennedy focused on the interdependence of military mightVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know(2017) GILFILLAN, SCOTTWhat really happened when the world’s two greatest superpowers went head to head during the Cold War? We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and ideological supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to thVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel(2017) QUINN, RILEYWinner of the 1998 Pulitzer, Guns, Germs, and Steel attempts to answer why human history unfolded differently on different continents.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order(2017) QUINN, RILEYIn his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideologies but between cultures.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Aristotle's Metaphysics(2017) CELKYTE, ASISTEHow many books can claim to be so influential as to inspire the development of a whole school of thought? Metaphysics did exactly that, laying the foundations for a new branch of philosophy concerned with the cause and nature of being.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality(2017) BERRY, DONWritten in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of Morality criticizes the idea that there is just one acceptable moral code.Vezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams(2017) JENKINS, WILLIAMThere is arguably no more famous book about the arts of interpretation and analysis than Sigmund Freud’s 1899 Interpretation of Dreams. Though Freud’s theories have often been criticized, he remains the undisputed master of interpretation – with his critiVezava: Mehka11,20 € -
Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract(2017) HILL, JAMESFew people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer, writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist.Vezava: Mehka11,20 €
