Encounters. the Warsaw Studies in English Language Culture, Literature, and Visual Arts – serie
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Absolute and the Cold War
Discourses of Abstract Expressionism
Inbunden, 2011
507 kr
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This book analyzes art criticism on Abstract Expressionism, lauded as «the triumph of American painting.» It traces the ways in which the movement’s meaning has been construed and constructed in reference to the changing cultural and political framework. Starting from the purely formal analyses of …
Rolfe, Rose, Corvo, Crabbe
The Literary Images of Frederick Rolfe
Inbunden, 2014
863 kr
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Drawing on theories of biography and autobiography, including the works of Philippe Lejeune, Michel Foucault, and Philip Roth, Rolfe, Rose, Corvo, Crabbe attempts to tackle the issue of Frederick Rolfe’s image. Like many other authors, Rolfe (1860–1913), also known as Baron Corvo, wanted to …
Victorian Poet and His Readers: The Strange Case of Tennyson’s «The Princess»
Inbunden, 2016
803 kr
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The author follows the interpretative pursuits of nineteenth-century readers and analyses Tennyson’s The Princess through the prism of their critical ideas. She analyses Tennyson’s reconsideration of gender binaries and women’s rights as well as the poem’s reliance on the aesthetics of the …
Funtime, Endtime: Reading Frank O’Hara
Av Tadeusz Pióro, Justyna Wierzchowska
Inbunden, 2017
682 kr
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This book is a comprehensive approach to interpreting Frank O’Hara’s highly influential work. Frank O’Hara’s poetry, initially inspired by the Modernist avant-garde, underwent a radical change around 1960. This change parallels the decline of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art. The book …
Iain Sinclair, London and the Photographic
The Significance of the Visual Medium for the Writer’s Prose
Av Dominika Lewandowska-Rodak, Justyna Wierzchowska
Inbunden, 2019
790 kr
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This book explores the significance of photography for Iain Sinclair’s London prose. The visual medium is one of the writer’s most prominent motifs, featuring extensively in his fiction and non-fiction. This study, however, proposes that its role in Sinclair’s work extends beyond that of a literary …
Texts, Images, Practices
Contemporary Perspectives on American, British and Polish Cultures
Av Paweł Rutkowski, Justyna Wierzchowska
Inbunden, 2021
672 kr
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Texts, Images, Practices offers multidisciplinary readings of various texts of culture, including social and political phenomena, novels, memoirs, letters and articles in the press, musical, theatrical adaptation and food. The authors draw from a variety of methodologies worked out within cultural …
