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Henry David Thoreau – Grasping the Community of the World
Translated by Jean Ward
Inbunden, 2014
1023 kr
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This study takes up Thoreau’s work as an early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships between the individual and society. Thus Adorno’s formulation of «a melancholy of science» finds its predecessor in Thoreau’s famous dictum from the early pages of Walden that we live our …
Henry James Goes to War
Av Miroslawa Buchholtz, Dorota Guttfeld m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
964 kr
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Within the past decades, Henry James has been seen going to the movies and to Paris, both far more likely destinations for him than battlefields of the modern world. Sending him off to war seems to be a preposterous idea, but the exaggeration inscribed in the title of the present volume is meant to …
World War I from Local Perspectives: History, Literature and Visual Arts
Austria, Britain, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Poland and the United States
Av Mirosława Buchholtz, Grzegorz Koneczniak
Inbunden, 2015
863 kr
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The volume explores the ways in which the Great War has been remembered and imaged in various local accounts. It provides careful readings of a wide range of sources: letters exchanged by Henry James and Burgess Noakes, spoken accounts of the Old Believers of the Russian Orthodox Church, historical …
Alice Munro: Reminiscence, Interpretation, Adaptation and Comparison
Av Mirosława Buchholtz, Eugenia Sojka
Inbunden, 2015
803 kr
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Canadian writer Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection of essays by authors from Poland, Canada and France presents an intercultural perspective on her work and a new approach to Munro’s art of short story writing. It offers literary interpretation of the genre, …
Ekphrastic Conceptualism in Postmodern British and American Novels
Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Tom McCarthy
Inbunden, 2015
869 kr
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The relationship between the arts has fascinated people for centuries. Discussing the ancient notion of ekphrasis, this study examines the interpenetration of literary and non-literary art. Traditionally, ekphrasis is defined as a rhetorical device for the poetic description of a painting or a …
Facets of Domestication
Case Studies in Polish-English and English-Polish Translation
Inbunden, 2015
668 kr
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Lawrence Venuti’s distinction between foreignizing and domesticating translation is a powerful concept in translation studies. This volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation and presents case studies of film, prose, poetry, and non-fiction, …
Art, Ethics and Provocation
Av Anna Suwalska-Kolecka, Izabella Penier
Inbunden, 2016
803 kr
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The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which cross boundaries and challenge habitual thinking, consequently involving an element of provocation. While it is true that not all great art is provocative, the most memorable artefacts are these which have …
Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity
Av Ioana Zirra, Madeleine Potter
Inbunden, 2015
668 kr
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Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in …
Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary
Av Katarzyna Więckowska, Katarzyna Wieckowska
Inbunden, 2016
963 kr
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This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the aim to question the already known and to interrogate the realms of ethics, literature, history and cultural identities. The contributors not only …
Dark Transfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic
Anna Mostowska Reads Ann Radcliffe
Av Agnieszka Łowczanin, Miroslawa Buchholtz
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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This book fills the gap in research of the early stages of literary Gothicism and examines its transfer from England, via French, to Poland-Lithuania in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The focus is on the oeuvre of Anna Mostowska, the first professional female writer of the …
Beyond Diversity
The Past and the Future of English Studies
Av Przemysław Żywiczyński, Marta Sibierska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
594 kr
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This book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, show the academic potential of English Studies – its most contemporary lines of investigation seen against the area’s traditional concerns. The chapters illustrate a cross section of research in English literature, linguistics, language …
Language Origins
From Mythology to Science
Av Przemysław Żywiczyński, Miroslawa Buchholtz
Inbunden, 2018
704 kr
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The science of language evolution appeared at the end of the last century but topically belongs to language origins – the domain of investigation that is concerned with the beginnings and diversification of language. Language evolution as a research area contrasts with the antiquity of language …
Brian Moore’s Eponymous Heroines
Representations of Women and Authorial Boundaries
Av Dorota Filipczak, Miroslawa Buchholtz
Inbunden, 2018
747 kr
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This feminist study is an innovative reassessment of Brian Moore’s five novels featuring eponymous heroines. The author reviews previous interpretations, exposing their sexist bias. Highlighting Moore’s empathetic insights, she also discusses the novelist’s limitations. She compares Moore’s …
Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses
Av Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
808 kr
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This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution – a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to audiences who are not professionally involved in science and presents the problems of language origins together with …
Nost/algia as a Mode of Reflection in the Autobiographical Narratives of Joseph Conrad and Henry James
Av Sylwia Wojciechowska, Miroslawa Buchholtz
Inbunden, 2023
597 kr
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Within the past decades, nostalgia has become a misleadingly familiar concept. Whereas popular nostalgia connotes an idealised memory of the past, nost/algia implies a novelty of approach by focusing on the distinction between ‘nostos’ (the return) and ‘algos’ (the pain). Discussed with a reference …
Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels
A Cognitivist Perspective
Av Slawomir Wacewicz, Miroslawa Buchholtz
Inbunden, 2015
588 kr
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The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While categorisation may be the single most basic cognitive process in …
