Zbirka: Od 1900 do danes
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Under Cover(2018) ROBSON, JEREMYFull of enticing anecdotes culled from a fifty-year career, this is an engrossing book that provides an insider's view of the changing world of publishing. Jeremy Robson has published an extraordinary range of household names; writers, poets, actors, sinVezava: Trda26,73 € -
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 € -
East of the Wardrobe(2022) BALL, WARWICK (ARCHAEOLOGIST, ARCHAEOLOGIST)In East of the Wardrobe, Warwick Ball explores hitherto unrecognised and unexpected Eastern aspects in and influences on C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia.Vezava: Trda53,21 € -
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 € -
James Joyce(2021) MACCABE, COLIN (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND FILM, UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH)James Joyce was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. This book explores his novels and short stories, and analyses the literary traditions and social factors influencing his distinctive complex style. Interweaving Joyce's life andVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Hygienic Apparatus(2022) DOBRYDEN, PAULTraces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction, the book explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representatioVezava: Trda170,24 € -
J. M. Synge(2021) HEWITT, SEA¡N (GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND FELLOW, SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK)A thorough re-assessment of one of Ireland's major playwrights, J.M. Synge (1871-1909). Using much previously-undiscussed archival material, the book takes each of Synge's plays and prose works, tracing his journey from an early Romanticism to a later, moVezava: Trda159,60 € -
Only Wonderful Things(2021) HOMESTEAD, MELISSA J. (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN)Drawing on newly uncovered archives, The Only Wonderful Things offers a groundbreaking look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process by arguing that the writer's life partner, magazine editor Edith Lewis, had a crucial impact on Cather's literVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Hell of War Comes Home(2019) JR, OWEN W. GILMANExploring the US experience of war in the twenty-first century, this book argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it, especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.Vezava: Mehka69,41 € -
Extraordinary Life of A A Milne(2017) COHEN, NADIAA fascinating insight into one of the world's most beloved children's authorsVezava: Trda28,03 € -
Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia(2022) OFFORD, PROFESSOR DEREK (UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UK)An innovative interpretation of the US novelist Ayn Rand as a pre-revolutionary Russian intellectual.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Literary Land Claims(2015) FEE, MARGERYIndigenous people have long been represented as roaming “savages” without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyses works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these domVezava: Mehka36,35 € -
Eileen(2020) TOPP, SYLVIAZelda, Nora, Vera, and now Eileen – this is the story of George Orwell's first wife, a woman who shaped, supported and even saved the life of one of twentieth century's greatest writersVezava: Trda41,58 €
