English Literature and Culture in Context – serie
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Biopunk Worlds of Paolo Bacigalupi
Av Aleksandra Mochocka, Jakub Lipski
Inbunden, 2019
711 kr
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This book explores literary techniques that allow science fiction literature to be a platform for activist interventions. The focus is on the body and food as storyworld existents in selected texts by Paolo Bacigalupi, whose writing is directed towards raising awareness of the environmental crisis. …
Narratives of the Self
Av Pawel Schreiber, Joanna Malicka
Inbunden, 2015
661 kr
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This book explores the many interdependencies and crossovers between living and writing, or, in more specific terms, between writers’ lives on the one hand and their literary output on the other. Thematically divided into four major parts, the book focuses on different literary concerns and …
John Bull and the Continent
Av Wojciech Jasiakiewicz, Jakub Lipski
Inbunden, 2015
803 kr
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Ever since John Arbuthnot published The History of John Bull in 1712, the figure of John Bull has stereotypically personified the best and the worst traits of the British (or English) national character. The present work takes the eponymous juxtaposition as an incentive to study the variety of …
Stage Histories
Post-War British Historical Drama
Inbunden, 2015
786 kr
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The book presents post-war British historical drama not only as a phenomenon within literature and theatre, but also as an alternative form of representing the past, not as much competing with historiography as complementing it. The author shows how some of the central concerns of late …
Ethnolinguistics, Cultural Change and Early Scripts from England and Wales
Inbunden, 2016
733 kr
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The study presents a chronotope of linguistic and cultural changes that took place in England and Wales between the 4th and 8th centuries. It encompasses the areas of South Wales and Eastern England and describes the cultural practices of preliterate Anglo-Saxon and Celtic speech communities and …
