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  • Welcome to the Chemical Theatre

    The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd’s Fiction

    by Marta Komsta ...
    Series Book 6 - Mediated Fictions
    The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic analysis. ... Read more

    $67.19 USD

  • Strange Vistas

    Perspectives on the Utopian

    Edited by Justyna Galant, Marta Komsta ...
    Series Book 16 - Mediated Fictions
    The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary reality. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such as philosophy, translation, music, social and political issues, like workers’ movements and ideology, ... Read more

    $58.19 USD

  • Visions and Revisions

    Studies in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Grzegorz Czemiel, Justyna Galant, Anna Kędra-Kardela, Aleksandra Kędzierska, Marta Komsta ...
    Series Book 4 - Silesian Studies in Anglophone Cultures and Literatures
    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. Part two focuses on prose works representing such conventions and modes as the romance, the Gothic ... Read more

    $94.69 USD

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  • Theorists of the Modernist Novel

    James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf

    by Deborah Parsons ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Tracing the developing modernist aesthetic in the thought and writings of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, Deborah Parsons considers the cultural, social and personal influences upon the three writers. Exploring the connections between their theories, Parsons pays particular attention to their work on:forms of realismcharacters and consciousnessgender and the noveltime and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Strategies of Silence

    Reflections on the Practice and Pedagogy of Creative Writing

    Edited by Moy McCrory, Simon Heywood ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Creative Writing
    This unique book takes silence as its central concept and questions the range of meanings and values which inform the idea as it impinges on the creative process and its content and contexts.The thematic core of silence allows a consideration of silencing and silence as opposite ends of a spectrum: one shutting down, the other enabling and opening up. As a multidisciplinary collection of essays ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Joyce's Ghosts

    Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

    by Luke Gibbons ...
    "A deeply original work . . . part of a refreshing new wave of literary criticism that is written in clear, hospitable prose, driven by genuine passion." — Irish TimesFor decades, James Joyce's modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe's urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure ... Read more

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  • Irish Drama, Modernity and the Passion Play

    by Alexandra Poulain ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book discusses Irish Passion plays (plays that rewrite or parody the story of the Passion of Christ) in modern Irish drama from the Irish Literary Revival to the present day. It offers innovative readings of such canonical plays as J. M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, W. B. Yeats’s Calvary, Brendan Behan’s The Hostage, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Brian Friel’s Faith Healer and Tom ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Secret Selves

    A History of Our Inner Space

    by Professor Stephen Prickett ...
    Who are we and how do we define our inner selves?In his last work, Professor Stephen Prickett presents a literary and cultural exploration of our inner selves – and how we have created and written about them – from the Old Testament to social media.What he finds is that although our secret, inner, sense of self – what we feel makes us distinctively 'us' – seems a natural and permanent part of ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

  • British Fiction Today

    Edited by Dr Rod Mengham, Professor Philip Tew ...
    British Fiction Today provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and novels since 1990 and provides the latest critical perspectives on current British fiction. It offers comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of a broad range of selected contemporary authors, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of the new British ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Fragmenting modernism

    Ford Madox Ford, the novel and the Great War

    by Sara Haslam ...
    Fragmenting modernism' is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the 'English Review', and author of 'The Good Soldier', he shaped the development of literary modernism. But as the grandson of Ford Madox Brown, and son of a German ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Fourth Political Theory

    by Alexander Dugin ...
    All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted.The world today finds itself on the ... Read more

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  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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