Del 19 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Co
Western fantástico de Stephen King
Hibridización y desencantamiento de la tradición literaria europea en El Pistolero
Häftad, Spanska, 2018
708 kr
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15 produkter
15 produkter
- Del 21 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Voss: An Australian Geographical and Literary Exploration
History and Travelling in the Fiction of Patrick White
Häftad, Engelska, 20191 168 kr
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This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Voss’s exploration of the interior of Australia, as a parable of the writer’s exploration of the Australian historical, social and cultural context of the 1950s. The study employs a variety of critical apparatus including a post-structuralist and postcolonial approach, which also encompasses linguistics, sociolinguistics and comparative studies. This multi-level critical aid allows the examination of four levels of exploration utilised by the author. Following an analysis of the protagonist’s geographical movement into the desert and his personal transformation, the study moves on to an exploration of the narrative itself. It explores how the novel becomes subject to change, absorbing and contesting a variety of literary genres ranging from the ‘chronicle’ to the parable. Through this multi-level approach, the study demonstrates the variety of readings the novel stimulates and displays its rich intertextual and subtextual elements and links. - Del 22 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Co
Oeste recuperado
La literatura del pasado y la construcción de personajes en El Señor de los Anillos
Häftad, Spanska, 2018976 kr
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Viajeras de élite
Experiencias, recorridos, textos. Siglos XIX y XX.
Häftad, Spanska, 2021617 kr
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- Del 27 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
From East to West
The Portrayal of Nature in British Fantasy and its Projection in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Western American "Earthsea"
Häftad, Engelska, 2021619 kr
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The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre during different periods, drawing a comparison between the British tradition of fantasy literature and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle. Le Guin adheres to the general traits of the genre up to a point, but as a woman of the 20th century living in the American West, her works also deviate from the received tradition in many significant ways. - Del 25 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama
Power, sexualities and ideologies in text and performance
Häftad, Engelska, 2021824 kr
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Taking as its common thread the overtly theatrical nature of early modern society and its cultural and political manifestations this book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove that the boundaries between on and off stage performances of gender are blurred. Thus, the limits that separate theatre and life are highly permeable and the relations between both are bidirectional: the performativity of gender and identity is an idea that the theatre takes from and transfers to society. This concept is applied to a wide timeframe creating a dialogue between different historical times and cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, the authors explore sexualities as written and performed by both men and women, offering a wider scope to determine whether and to what extent normative gender roles are being questioned, contested or reinforced. - Del 31 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, Engelska, 2023440 kr
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Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human interaction is portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus. In this regard, the animal’s portrayals in the Exeter Book Riddles and of monstrous creatures in the Wonders of the East provided a fertile field for research because these texts, rarely connected to allegorical readings and offering viewpoints that might be seen as complementary, deal with fundamental issues regarding what it meant to be human for Early Medieval English society.This study offers fresh insights into the characters and themes explored in the Exeter Book collection and in the Wonders of the East, looking for the spaces of Anglo-Saxon thought in which animality and humanity appear to meet. The author not only discovers the peculiar features in the definition of humanity with regard to animal and non-human figures, but is able to demonstrate that a strong anthropocentric vocation can coexist with an outlook that recognizes a close affinity among different species. - Del 28 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Fugitive Papers
Orinda’s Literary Career
Häftad, Engelska, 2023486 kr
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When the book titled Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs K.P. was published in 1664 Katherine Philips herself defined it as "those fugitive papers that have escap'd my hands", expressing her reluctance to publish them and her aversion to her works appearing in print. Despite her (apparent) modesty, Orinda and her work definitely occupied an important position in the literary field of that time. This book studies the life and work of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) from a historicist and socio-critical perspective. It posits that 'the Matchless Orinda' embodies the literary shift from manuscript to printed literature, and shows how a woman poet, following in the footsteps of successful male counterparts, such as Abraham Cowley and John Dryden, was able to achieve fame in the male-dominated literary world. - Del 29 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Co
Visión Ambiental del Hogar En La Obra Británica La Comunidad del Anillo de J. R. R. Tolkien Frente Al Lejano Oeste Americano de Mago Y Cristal de Stephen King
Häftad, Spanska, 2023430 kr
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- Del 30 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Co
Polvo Eres Y En Cine Te Convertirás
Valoraciones Y Relevancia de la Fidelidad En La Recepción de Crítica Y Público de la Adaptación Cinematográfica de Ask the Dust
Häftad, Spanska, 2023631 kr
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- Del 32 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Spanish Perspectives on The American West in 21st-Century Literature, Cinema and Culture
Häftad, Engelska, 2024685 kr
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This volume delves into the study of the American West from a Spanish perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a geographical space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision and that its impact, both in the USA and internationally, is unquestionable, it aims to contribute to this re-description through a contemporary Spanish standpoint. It looks into the hypothesis that, just as the "Old West" as myth and reality served as a cohesive element of "the American identity" and its values, and that its international impact was spectacular, the "New West" is currently being exported and assimilated internationally, extending the revision of the myth, and thus, its relationship with said identity. - Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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This book contains a collection of essays dealing with different re-workings of the Arthurian myth. The papers trace the Arthurian myth, inquiring into its origins in Ancient Rome, and pointing out influences from the Dark Ages up to the present. Reference is made to oral tradition, visual narrative and iconic messages in manuscript illumination, the myth in medieval chivalry and the decay of the latter. Parallelisms are drawn with Christian figures and beliefs, with Irish literature and Gaelic mythology, and with novels and films.The methodological approaches and points of view show great diversity: from an inquiry into the historical sources of the myth, to comparative literature, inter-textuality, feminist criticism, analysis of cinema up to a refreshing practical classroom exercise. - Del 5 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)
Häftad, Spanska, 20101 075 kr
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Varios personajes de la España de los siglos XIX y XX aparecen en la literatura inglesa, sobre todo en los libros de viajeros británicos, irlandeses y norteamericanos, con determinados perfiles literarios que los convierten en característicos, sin por ello llegar a resultar estereotipados o monolíticos. El presente libro analiza en especial la imagen literaria del guardia civil, y la de otros personajes que aparecen en los relatos de viajeros por España escritos en lengua inglesa entre 1844 y 1994. A través del estudio de un corpus compuesto por más de quinientas obras, se intenta reflejar una imagen del guardia civil compartida en el ámbito anglosajón. Además, se presenta dicha visión de la Benemérita contrastada con otras figuras que han ido poblando el paisaje español a lo largo de distintas épocas, como el bandolero, el gitano, el contrabandista, el turista o el carabinero. La imagen de éstos está mediatizada por los prejuicios personales, nacionales o ideológicos del viajero que narra, por su clase social, por su economía particular o por su conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura española. - Del 9 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Ginealogías sáficas
De Katherine Philips a Jeanette Winterson
Häftad, Spanska, 2012566 kr
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Cada año se publican numerosos artículos y algún que otro libro sobre Safo. Ginealogías sáficas no es uno más. Ni siquiera es, quizá, un libro sobre Safo. Es el trabajo de una filóloga que sigue el rastro a una Safo angloparlante que nunca ha existido, pero tan real, tan irreal, como cualquiera de las muchas que viven en las historias de la literatura. No se trata de un estudio sobre influencias ni sobre traducciones: son más bien renacimientos en la literatura de diferentes autoras, desde Katherine Philips y Margaret Cavendish, en el siglo XVII, hasta Jeanette Winterson, hoy mismo. Y por el medio, nombres muy conocidos, como los de Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, Virginia Woolf; o menos, como Natalie Barney, Hilda Doolittle; o apenas: Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, las Michael Field, y otras muchas que, en algunos casos, se traducen ahora por primera vez al castellano. Ginealogías sáficas es un libro de fronteras difusas, que interesará a quienes se dedican a la literatura clásica; a las estudiosas de la tradición sáfica, no ya desde la perspectiva del helenismo, sino de la construcción sexual o del género; a los y las teóricos queer, y a todas quienes, desde los estudios feministas, busquen rastrear la (pre-)historia de la escritura de las mujeres de lengua inglesa. - Del 13 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
El Héroe del Oeste en "Las Crónicas de Narnia"
Häftad, Spanska, 2014611 kr
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Este estudio sobre el mito del héroe en Las Crónicas de Narnia se fundamenta tanto en la crítica literaria y la bibliografía general y específica sobre el autor y su obra, como en las teorías de la literatura infantil y del héroe en las tradiciones literarias occidentales, incluido el Oeste norteamericano. Aun compartiendo rasgos con el mito irónico modernista, la lectura de la obra de Lewis demuestra que los héroes en las Crónicas sintetizan y actualizan estas tradiciones, a la vez que desafían las categorizaciones simples debido al particular tratamiento del héroe como niño y la vocación universal de su trayectoria, cuya raíz reside en el trasfondo cristiano – a la vez occidental y universal – de los planteamientos literarios de Lewis.
