Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures – serie
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7 produkter
Poisoned Cornucopia
Excess, Intemperance and Overabundance across Cultures and Literatures
Av Ryszard Wolny, Stankomir Nicieja
Inbunden, 2014
1105 kr
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This volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories …
Writing from the Margins of Europe
The Application of Postcolonial Theories to Selected Works by William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge and James Joyce
Inbunden, 2014
964 kr
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The application of postcolonial theories to Irish literature remains a contentious issue. Unlike other colonised nations, Ireland shared a long history of political, economic and artistic ties with its empire-building neighbour, Britain. Yet the Irish response to the project of British imperialism …
Literary Spaces in the Selected Works of J.M. Coetzee
Inbunden, 2014
539 kr
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This book closely examines the processes governing the construction of literary spaces in the selected works of J.M. Coetzee, focusing in particular on the writer’s subversive and destructive treatment of traditional modes of representation which participated in the imperial enterprise and served …
Visions and Revisions
Studies in Literature and Culture
Av Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1063 kr
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Collected under the theme of Visions and Revisions, the papers included in this volume examine different aspects of literature and culture of the Anglophone world. The first part gathers articles dealing with poetry of such epochs as the seventeenth century, the Victorian era and the modern times. …
Lessons from the East
Representations of East Asia in Contemporary Anglophone Films and Novels
Av Stankomir Nicieja, Ryszard Wolny
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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This book analyses representations of East Asia, mainly China and Japan, in selected Anglophone novels and films. Starting with the earliest texts and accounts, the first two chapters explore wider historical and cultural contexts of the mutual influences between the cultures of the East and West. …
Production of Emotions
Perspectives and Functions
Av Teresa Bruś, Marcin Tereszewski
Inbunden, 2016
863 kr
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The essays of this collection are, each in their own way, an attempt to address the centrality of emotions in literary and cultural production in a variety of genres, from medieval moralities to contemporary novels, from English Romanticism to film studies. Emotions are understood as mobile forms …
Spectrum of Emotions
From Love to Grief
Av Wojciech Drąg, Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
Inbunden, 2016
845 kr
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The authors of this volume discuss the tangible need for a revision of the vocabulary of emotion used in literary criticism and culture studies. The articles offer a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to emotional states such as love, shame, grief, nostalgia and trauma. They demonstrate …
