Zbirka: Literarne študije
2064 rezultatov
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Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community(2018) YAMAMOTO, DR KAORU (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SHIGA PREFECTURE, JAPAN)Vezava: Mehka37,41 € -
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life(2017) TODD, JANETAn exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
The Ministry of Truth - A Biography of George Orwell's 1984(2019) DORIAN LYNSKEYVezava: Trda23,82 € -
William Blake Now(2019) HIGGS, JOHN'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William BlakeA short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
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Inventing Afterlives(2018) JANES, REGINA M.Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking whVezava: Mehka51,70 € -
Against a Sharp White Background(2019)Covers elements of production, circulation, and reception of African American writing across a range of genres and contexts. This collection challenges mainstream book history and print culture to understand that race and racialization are inseparable froVezava: Trda105,00 € -
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction(2021) VINT, SHERRYL (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE)This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have significant implications for personhood, ethics, and governance. Drawing attention to the commodification oVezava: Trda72,23 € -
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German Women's Life Writing and the Holocaust(2018) KRIMMER, ELISABETH (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS)This book examines women's life writing from the Second World War and the Holocaust. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors allow insights into the nature of complicity itself, the emergence of violence in ciVezava: Trda154,03 € -
How to Teach Classics to Your Dog(2021) WOMACK, PHILIPAn introduction to the classical world for you and your canineVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Voltaire(2017) CRONK, NICHOLAS (PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LITERATURE IN OXFORD, A FELLOW OF ST EDMUND HALL, AND DIRECTOR OF THE VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION)This Very Short Introduction examines Voltaire's (1694-1778) remarkable life and career. Exploring his most important writings, the impact his work had on our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and his status as a literary celebrity at the time,Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Goethe(2016) ROBERTSON, RITCHIE (TAYLOR PROFESSOR OF GERMAN, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and dVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Daphnis and Chloe(2009) LONGUSLongus' romance tells the story of two teenagers, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Divine presences mingle with peasant life in this colourful story of the mystery of love and sexual initiation. Ronald McCail's new translation is immeVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England(2017) NOVACICH, SARAH ELLIOTT (RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW JERSEY)Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows how medieval writers and artists pondered ways of preserving and transmitting the past, and considered the pleVezava: Trda108,50 € -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information(2022) HESS, JILLIAN M. (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the mVezava: Mehka47,51 € -
