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Reading Contemporary Tv Series - Aesthetics, Themes, And Reception

by Barbara Miceli, Miosz Wojtyna e Roksana Zgierska

54,39€ + 10% CARD

 This book observes how rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. Reading TV series today, understanding its formal characteristics, and understanding its nuances is a way of interpreting the verbal-visual divide in contemporary mediatized culture.
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Sanctity As A Story - Narrative (In)Variants Of The Saint

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 The book analyzes the changing story-related patterns of constructing the figures of the saint and/or some concepts of sanctity, as recorded in a variety of artistic and historic texts. The book offers systematic insight into multiple transformations and transpositions of the narrative variants, and invariants, of the genre of hagiography that once determined the dissemination of culture. The problem that is tackled is that of identifying some core essentials of the past and contemporary representations of sanctity.
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Strange Vistas - Perspectives On The Utopian

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 The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such as philosophy, translation, music, social and political issues, and global utopian fiction.
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Mediating The World In The Novels Of Iain Banks - The Paradigms Of Fiction

by Katarzyna Pisarska

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 This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Bankss characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional worldmodelling, i.e. the four types of relationship between the individual and the world established by the authors first novel, The Wasp Factory. In order to give justice to the extremely eclectic novelistic production of Iain Banks, the analysis of fifteen of his novels contained in the present study employs diverse interpretative «tools», fusing elements of various methodologies: structural-semiotic analysis supplemented by a mythographic approach along with psychological and gender specific theories. Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks: The Paradigms of Fiction thus develops a critical paradigm capable of uniting the extremely versatile mainstream production of this Scottish writer.
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Painted Devils, Siren Tongues - The Semiotic Universe Of Jacobean Tragedy

by Justyna Galant

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 The book outlines the semiotic universe of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical tragedies by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous Lusts Dominion, Markham and Sampsons Herod and Antipater or Thierry and Theodoret by Beaumont and Fletcher.
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Mediated Utopias: From Literature To Cinema

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 The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20<UP>th</UP> and 21<UP>st</UP> centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World, Total Recall, The Secret Garden, Harrison Bergeron and Never Let Me Go. It focuses not only on the ways of constructing fictional realities and techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film, but also on their cultural and political determinants.
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H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller In His Fantastic Short Story Machine

by Halszka Lele

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 The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (18661946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wellss staple methods of artistic composition the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi.
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(Im)Perfection Subverted, Reloaded And Networked: Utopian Discourse Across Media

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 The volume explores intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and recent media: music, comics, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects. It shows the variety of forms of expression of utopian impulses and their relocation and reinterpretation in the contemporary culture of convergence.
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The Uncanny House In Elizabeth Bowens Fiction

by Olena Lytovka

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 The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowenâ€™s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowenâ€™s prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the charactersâ€™ identity.
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Reading Contemporary Tv Series - Aesthetics, Themes, And Reception

by Barbara Miceli, Milosz Wojtyna e Roksana Zgierska

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 This book observes how rapid development of the TV series in the twenty-first century has resulted in an emergence of new aesthetic, cultural, and social trends. Reading TV series today, understanding its formal characteristics, and understanding its nuances is a way of interpreting the verbal-visual divide in contemporary mediatized culture.
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The Contemporary Academic Mystery Novel - A Study In Genre

by Elbieta Perkowska-Gawlik

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 The book analyses the contemporary academic mystery novel through the lenses of the classical detective novel and the university novel. The authors of the analysed mysteries are scholars who invent apparently insoluble criminal conundrums to highlight the problems haunting the higher education system, such as plagiarism or fight for tenure.
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Intertextual Transactions In Contemporary British Fiction

by Patrycja Podgajna

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 This study focuses on emblematic intertextual strategies in contemporary British fiction. Analysing the process of adaptation, pastiche, transworld identity and historiographic metafiction, the book demonstrates how the intertextual impulse can be inscribed not only in the structure and semantics of a given text but also in the narrative plane.
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Intertextual Transactions In Contemporary British Fiction

by Patrycja Podgajna

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 This study focuses on presenting the techniques of reworking and incorporating intertextual material into contemporary British fiction. Analysing emblematic intertextual strategies: adaptation, pastiche, transworld identity, and historiographic metafiction, the study provides a good insight into how the intertextual impulse can be inscribed not only in the structure and semantics of a given text but also in the narrative plane. Adopting Gerard Genettes and Boris Uspenskys theoretical models, the book aims to demonstrate how the discussed intertextual strategies transform a source text, genre, or literary component and how these creative decodings function on different planes of a literary text.
Etudes Diachroniques Du Francais Et Perspectives Societales

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 Le volume thematise de nouvelles methodes en histoire de la langue francaise, basees sur la linguistique de corpus et une approche interdisciplinaire.
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The Stage Career Of Cicely Hamilton (1895â€“1914)

by Sean Moran

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 This book presents a pioneering survey of the professional career of a woman better known as a campaigner for womenâ€™s suffrage in the early twentieth century. It uses archive material to construct a chronology of productions in which she was involved either as author or actress in a twenty-year period from 1895.
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Forms And Shadows: A Cognitive-Poetic Reading Of Charles Williamss Fiction

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 This book is a cognitive-poetic study of the seven novels of Charles Williams (1886â€"1945). The author approaches the multidimensional narratives with reference to cognitive phenomena and mechanisms such as the figure-ground organization, conceptual metaphors, conceptual blending, image schemata, scripts, cognitive deixis, and empathy.
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The Stage Career Of Cicely Hamilton (18951914)

by Sean Moran

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 Drawing on recently released or previously neglected archive material, this book is the first dedicated to the stage career of Cicely Hamilton (18721952). Best known for her work with the womens suffrage movement, Hamilton was at the same time deeply committed to the commercial stage as an actress, dramatist and activist. The book draws extensively on Hamiltons own recollections as well as those of her close associates, supplemented by contemporary press reviews and articles, and concludes with a chronology of the productions in which she performed as a touring actress based on confirmed dates and venues. This book «() is a fascinating and fantastic resource for current and future scholars of Hamiltons work, as well as those interested in the wider framework of () the theatre industry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.» Dr. Naomi Paxton (School of Advanced Study, University of London) «With its documentation and assessment of Hamilton's touring career, () this well written and meticulously researched study provides an original contribution to theatre, dramatic, and reception history.» Prof. Dr. Rudolf Weiss (University of Vienna)
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Welcome To The Chemical Theatre - The Urban Chronotope In Peter Ackroyds Fiction

by Marta Komsta

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 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.
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Characters In Literary Fictions

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 The book focuses on the category of character in fiction. It analyses characters in individual texts by authors ranging from Conrad to Coetzee considered from rhetorical, structural, functional and cognitive perspectives; in genre contexts from utopia and fantasy to campus fiction; and in extra-textual contexts from intertextuality to autobiography.
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Limits Of Orality And Textuality In Ciaran Carsons Poetry

by Grzegorz Czemiel

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 Following the evolution of Ciaran Carsons work, this book aims to trace the tension between orality and textuality, which can be discerned in the poetry of the Northern-Irish writer. Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author delineates, using deconstruction, how they inform and structure Carsons poetic ½uvre. Further thematic analyses focus on three major themes: memory, city and history, adopting various critical approaches, among them New Historicism and psychoanalysis. Finally, taking cue from Carsons later work, an epistemological and metaphysical dimension of his poetry is revealed. This serves as the final vantage point from which the author offers a potential glimpse beyond the said dialectic, unveiling Carsons broadly ethical project.
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Dreams, Nightmares And Empty Signifiers - The English Country House In The Contemporary Novel

by Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga

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 Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguros The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwans Atonement, Sarah Waterss The Little Stranger and Alan Hollinghursts The Strangers Child, by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Analysing the different traditions of the novel of manners, gothic fiction and postmodern metafiction, the book identifies three principal variants of the manorial topos, which expound the country house as the locus of varied, often contradictory meanings.
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Playing Games Of Sense In Edwin Morgans Writing

by Monika Kocot

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 Monika Kocots book on Edwin Morgans literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the authors creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: «verbivocovisual» constellations, mythopoetic «writings-through» and intersemiotic translations.
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Ethnic Minorities Of Central And Eastern Europe In The Internet Space - A Computer-Assisted Content Analysis

by Hans-Georg Heinrich e Olga Alekseeva

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 The study focuses on ethnic identity in the Eastern and Central European countries. Minorities try to preserve their identity. In order to voice their political views and to protect their rights, ethnicities effectively use internet media, forums and blogs, which yields the empirical basis for the content analysis of this study draws.
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Playing Games Of Sense In Edwin Morganâ€™S Writing

by Monika Kocot

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 Monika Kocotâ€™s book on Edwin Morganâ€™s literary achievement, both poetry and drama, foregrounds the themes of cultural transgression, dialogism of the authorâ€™s creative design, and various, potentially subversive games of sense creation: Â«verbivocovisualÂ» constellations, mythopoetic Â«writings-through,Â» and intersemiotic translations.
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