New Americanists in Poland – serie
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American Uses of History
Essays on Public Memory
Av Tomasz Basiuk, Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
802 kr
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This collection of essays in American Studies investigates how American cultural production intersects with public memory. The contributions present the results of diverse fields of research. While most are literary analyses, others focus on film, art works, monuments, and other means by which …
Web of Sense
Patterns of Involution in Selected Works of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov
Inbunden, 2012
1546 kr
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This book is a comparative study of the early works of Vladimir Nabokov and the fictions of Virginia Woolf. The aim of this study was to establish the applications and implications of involution: how it is used to subtly reformat a text and how it changes the meaning of a work, trapping and …
Out of the Margins
Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings
Av Ewa Antoszek, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2012
602 kr
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The question of identity has been present in Chicana literature since its beginnings and the second part of the 20th century witnessed proliferation of works by Chicanas addressing this issue. Those recent works differ significantly from the earliest representations of Chicana self-definition …
American Wild Zones
Space, Experience, Consciousness
Av Jerzy Kamionowski, Jacek Partyka
Inbunden, 2015
934 kr
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The contributors understand the wild zone as denoting the existence and experience of a group (ethnic, social, sub-cultural, sexual, religious, etc.) which is/was marginalized in American society. Reaching far beyond the boundaries of original agenda (Edwin Ardener’s and Elaine Showalter’s), the …
Spaces of Expression and Repression in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Visual Culture
Av Izabella Kimak, Julia Nikiel
Inbunden, 2017
823 kr
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The essays included in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of contemporary North-American …
Exhaustion and Regeneration in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture
Av Julia Nikiel, Izabella Kimak
Inbunden, 2019
718 kr
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The essays included in this collection offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and visual art which reflect the current (post-)millennial fascination with theorizing ends and beginnings. The contributions intend to x-ray the most crucial aspects of contemporary North-American …
Disarchiving Anguish
Charles Reznikoff and the Modalities of Witnessing
Av Jacek Partyka, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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The book examines the modalities of witnessing in the works of Charles Reznikoff. Associated with the so-called “Objectivist” group created in New York in the early 1930s, Reznikoff is often called a poet-witness because the material he draws on in his poetry and, to a lesser extent in prose, comes …
Frameworks of Memory in Recent American Fiction
Narratives of East-Central European Immigrant Experience
Inbunden, 2021
663 kr
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Based on the theory and methodology of transcultural memory, this book describes and analyzes the fictional representations of memory and forgetting and the multiple roles they play in identity construction of immigrants and exiles. It focuses on fiction by contemporary American writers of …
Refigurations of Freedom
An Analysis of the Idea of Freedom in Contemporary American Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
Av Robert Gadowski, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2022
657 kr
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The idea of freedom, changed and contested throughout the ages, has become the staple of liberal democracies and a beacon of hope amidst dark tendencies that endanger the future. This books offers an analysis of freedom in the context of its historical significance for the Western civilization, …
Sound of a City: A Study of the Phenomenon
Av Maciej Smółka, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2023
561 kr
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The sound of a city is a cultural phenomenon based on the characteristic relationship between music and the cultural specificity of a given urban area. It occurs when artists from a region create music, which is so unique, it becomes indisputably linked with its place of origin in the public …
Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals
Destruction in this Land
Av Małgorzata Ziółek-Sowińska, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2017
738 kr
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This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation. It also focuses on how literary themes in spirituals …
On the Road to Lost Fathers: Jack Kerouac in a Lacanian Perspective
Av Tomasz Sawczuk, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2019
793 kr
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The book is the first monograph which examines the correspondences between the oeuvre of Jack Kerouac and the thought of Jacques Lacan, the two apparently incompatible worlds which prove to be complementary when taking a closer look. The study demonstrates a number of points. Firstly, with Jacques …
Upping the Ante of the Real: Speculative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino
Av Małgorzata Myk, Tomasz Basiuk
Inbunden, 2019
810 kr
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The author frames her reconstruction of the Bay Area poet, scholar, and experimental prose writer Leslie Scalapino’s transmedial poetics in the context of Scalapino’s published writings, available criticism of her works, as well as previously unpublished archival materials located among The …
