Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture – serie
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Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels
Av Arkadiusz Misztal, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2019
718 kr
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This book studies the complex relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the general framework of the culture and politics of time. It argues that notwithstanding a postmodern tendency towards the spatialization of experience, temporality constitutes a …
Glorious Outlaws: Debt as a Tool in Contemporary Postcolonial Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
964 kr
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This book addresses debt in postcolonial fiction: financial, social, historical, and cultural. The author examines how literary characters including servants, fallen women, and cultural outsiders pay or refuse to pay the debts imposed upon them, and the consequences of debts paid and unpaid. …
Afro-Caribbean Poetry in English
Cultural Traditions (1970s–2000s)
Inbunden, 2015
964 kr
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This book presents the phenomenon of Afro-Caribbean poetry in English from Jamaican classic dub poetry of the 1970s to (Black) British post-dub verse of the 2000s. It showcases the literary continuum, as represented by Jamaican, Jamaican-British, and ultimately (Black) British writers – Mutabaruka, …
Breaking the Silence
Poetry and the Kenotic Word
Av Malgorzata Grzegorzewska, Mark Burrows m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
964 kr
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This book of essays on poetic speech, viewed in a literary-critical, theological and philosophical light, explores the connections and disconnections between vulnerable human words, so often burdened with doubt and pain, and the ultimate kenosis of the divine Word on the Cross. An introductory …
Charles Darwin’s Looking Glass
The Theory of Evolution and the Life of its Author in Contemporary British Fiction and Non-Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
601 kr
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The book offers a comparative analysis of diverse Darwinism-inspired discourses such as post-modern novels, science fiction, popular science and nature films. Analysing the uses of the evolutionary discourse in recent literature and films, the study demonstrates how natural science influences the …
Constructing Identity
Continuity, Otherness and Revolt in the Poetry of Tony Harrison
Inbunden, 2016
701 kr
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The author analyzes the multi-layered and multidimensional theme of identity construction recurring in Tony Harrison’s work from the seventies onwards looking at the way it evolved throughout the years. The book examines identity in the frame of the sociological and philosophical thoughts of such …
Dress as Metaphor – British Female Fashion and Social Change in the 20th Century
Av Katarzyna Kociolek, Marek Wilczynski
Inbunden, 2020
721 kr
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This book traces the interconnectedness of women’s sartorial practices and social change in 20th-century Britain. Based on a wide range of cultural texts, which include literary works, magazines, posters, advertisements and political cartoons, this study endeavours to prove that due to the …
George Herbert and Post-phenomenology
A Gift for Our Times
Inbunden, 2016
803 kr
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This reading of George Herbert’s poetry takes advantage of contemporary philosophical reflection on the givenness of being and of language. The book presents George Herbert’s poetic sequence, The Temple, as the poet’s response to a call which originates in the Word made flesh and at the same time …
Ordinary and the Short Story
Short Fiction of T.F. Powys and V.S. Pritchett
Inbunden, 2015
786 kr
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This formalist-narratological study of T.F. Powys’ and V.S. Pritchett’s short fiction reestablishes both authors as important contributors to the history of the short story form. It also discusses how writers, who did not belong to the modernist avant-garde innovation, address the problems of the …
Crime Fiction
A Critical Casebook
Av Stephen Butler, Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish
Inbunden, 2018
929 kr
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, crime fiction remains one of the most popular genres among both readers and writers. This compilation of essays attempts to trace the reasons behind this ongoing popularity as well as to offer a closer reading of a number of crime fiction texts from …
Painter’s Word
Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt as Writers
Av Edyta Frelik
Inbunden, 2016
964 kr
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This book adds a new perspective to the study of American art by reclaiming underrated writings of three 20th-century masters, Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt. Their rich and diverse literary output was never before studied methodically in and beyond the context of their …
Apology for Catholicism in Selected Writings by G. K. Chesterton
Av Maciej Reda
Inbunden, 2016
963 kr
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This book focuses on G. K. Chesterton’s apology for Catholicism in the context of his epoch. It shows how he portrays Catholicism as English and universal at the same time and thus seeks to put an end to its isolation from England's mainstream culture. Organized around four thematic issues …
Popular Genres and Their Uses in Fiction
Av Jadwiga Węgrodzka, Marek Wilczynski
Inbunden, 2018
909 kr
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The book focuses on popular genres of romance, fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, thriller, and What-if historical fiction in popular books, in artistic literature and on the borderline between the two. The author analyses the work of writers such as Jennifer Greene, Barbara Delinsky, and Lilian …
Ways of Pleasure
Angela Carter's 'Discourse of Delight' in her Fiction and Non-Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
823 kr
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The book demonstrates the thematic unity underlying Angela Carter's fiction and non-fiction. The author analyzes their interdependence and demonstrates how Carter's texts persistently examine existing theories of pleasure from many different angles. In this way, Carter’s works enter into dialogue …
Regeneration, Citizenship, and Justice in the American City since the 1970s
Av Aneta Dybska, Marek Wilczynski
Inbunden, 2017
984 kr
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This book investigates post-industrial American cities as sites of struggle where political identities are mobilized and new modes of citizenship are articulated. This interdisciplinary analysis gleans insights from anthropology, literary criticism, cultural studies, geography, political …
Parody, Scriblerian Wit and the Rise of the Novel
Parodic Textuality from Pope to Sterne
Av Przemysław Uściński, Marek Wilczynski
Inbunden, 2017
984 kr
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Parody was a crucial technique for the satirists and novelists associated with the Scriblerus Club. The great eighteenth-century wits (Alexander Pope, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne) often explored the limits of the ugly, the droll, the grotesque and the insane by mocking, distorting and …
In Wonder, Love and Praise
Approaches to Poetry, Theology and Philosophy
Av Martin Potter, Malgorzata Grzegorzewska m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
884 kr
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This collection of essays explores poetry’s contribution to the expression of theological wonder, which can occur both in ordinary life and in the natural world or can arise in the context of explicitly supernatural mystical experience. Poets have a special role in capturing religious awe in ways …
Women in Edward Bond
Av Susana Nicolás Román, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2019
734 kr
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This book focuses on an unexplored area of Edward Bond’s writing. While different studies examine the violence present in his plays or his dramatic theory, questions around his powerful female characters have remained unsolved. None of the criticism has developed specifically the role of these …
Redefining the Fringes in Celtic Studies
Essays in Literature and Culture
Av Aleksander Bednarski, Robert Looby
Inbunden, 2019
734 kr
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These essays in the language, literature and history of the broadly speaking Celtic world range widely over time and space and subject matter. Subjects include the design of autobiographies in the early years of the Irish republic, the publishing scandal around "Youth is my Sin" by John Rowlands, …
Archaization in Literary Translation as Nostalgic Pastiche
Av Krzysztof Filip Rudolf, Wilczynski Marek
Inbunden, 2019
857 kr
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The book focuses on the phenomenon of archaization in literary translation. It analyzes the concept of archaism, pointing to its strongly evaluative aspect and highlighting the difficulties connected with supplying its clear and acceptable definition. Archaism and archaization are strongly rooted …
Byron: Reality, Fiction and Madness
Av Mirosława Modrzewska, Maria Fengler
Inbunden, 2020
721 kr
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This book explores the amorphous, fragmented and digressive world of George Gordon Byron’s poetic works, which are pervaded by the themes of change, mutability, deformation and transgression, often presented or described as madness. The blurring of the border between fiction and reality is a matter …
Literary Art of Ali Smith
All We Are is Eyes
Av Ema Jelínková, Rachael Sumner
Inbunden, 2020
706 kr
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The articles in this volume represent a wide range of perspectives on the literary art of Ali Smith; one of the most significant figures in the field of contemporary British literature. Focussing on concepts of visual and linguistic representation, these papers reflect Smith's own preoccupations …
On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Virginia Woolf’s Hermeneutics of the Beautiful
Av Małgorzata Hołda, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2021
677 kr
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The book is an exploration of the affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre. The study addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence. Tracing Plato’s legacy in …
Constructing Identity in the Poetry of Tony Harrison
Revised and Expanded Edition
Av Agata Handley, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, “at the friction point of two cultures”. His schooling introduced him to the “classics”; but it also deprived him of a clear identification with the place where he grew up. His …
Building (in) the Promised Land
Postcolonial Biblical Readings of Contemporary Irish Drama (2000-2015)
Av Grzegorz Koneczniak, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2021
656 kr
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This book offers new close readings of contemporary Irish drama in the context of postcolonial Biblical studies. Developing Christopher Morash’s historiographical metaphor of Babel, it combines appropriations of this and other selected Biblical themes of building found in plays by such authors as …
‘Fourth Way’ to Tell the Story
Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates
Av Barbara Miceli, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2021
677 kr
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This study is an analysis of the novels Black Water (1992), Blonde (2000), and My Sister, My Love (2008) by Joyce Carol Oates. Based on real-life characters (Mary Jo Kopechne, Marilyn Monroe, JonBenét Ramsey), these works blend fact and fiction, historical and poetic truth, and create a new way to …
Nature Walks
Peripatetic Tradition in the Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane
Av Anna Dziok
Inbunden, 2023
712 kr
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This book, Nature Walks: Peripatetic Tradition in Non-fiction Travel Writing of Robert Macfarlane examines pedestrianism in the long history of British travel writing and examines the consequences that foot mobility has for the walking self and for the meaning-making of the surrounding world. This …
Samuel Beckett's Signature in Years 1929–1938
Reflecting on the Thought Process: Language, the Neutrum and Memory
Av Rafał Borkowski, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2022
389 kr
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The study offers new readings of early works, both novels and short stories, of Samuel Beckett in the context of Beckett’s signature. The author analyses the given signature through such terms as language, the neutrum and memory, simultaneously incorporating the mentioned terms in the context of …
Poetics of Borderlands
A Comparative Study of Selected Texts by Contemporary US Latina/Chicana and Polish Women Writers
Av Aleksandra Hołubowicz, Marek Wilczyński
Inbunden, 2023
735 kr
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The book explores the notion of borderlands and the concept of nomadic subjectivity as manifested in selected novels by Chicana/Latina and contemporary Polish women authors. It seeks to propose a poetics of borderlands that emerges from the condition of nepantla (being torn, not belonging …
Art Of Cultural Memory
Av Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz, Maria Błaszkiewicz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
597 kr
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The volume consists of fifteen papers discussing a vast array of issues and aspects relating to the concept of cultural memory. Taking as a standpoint the Halbwachs/Assman critical tradition, the individual contributions trace the relevance of the concept in the context of a wide range of areas, …
