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Nimble Tongues - Studies In Literary Translingualism

de Steven G. Kellman

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A collection of essays that continues Steven Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its challenges; immigrant memoirs; and Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar.
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Writing Gender In Early Modern Chinese Women'S Tanci Fiction

de Li Guo

62,19€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Women's tanci are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. This book offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women's representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion.
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The Making Of A Caribbean Avant-Garde - Postmodernism As Post-Nationalism

de Therese Kaspersen Hadchity

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, this book describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which came to international attention in the 1990s. The book is centred on the critical and aesthetic strategies employed to repudiate the previous generation's commitment to modernism and anti-colonialism.
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Imagining Afghanistan - Global Fiction And Film Of The 9/11 Wars

de Alla Ivanchikova

66,92€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent US-led invasion. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening ""Afghanistan"" has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition.
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Faust Adaptations From Marlowe To Aboudoma And Markland

de Lorna Fitzsimmons

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Takes a comparative cultural studies approach to the ubiquitous legend of Faust and his infernal dealings. Including readings of English, German, Dutch, and Egyptian adaptations ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary moment, this collection emphasizes the interdisciplinary and transcultural tenets of comparative cultural studies.
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Comparative Cultural Studies And The New Weltliteratur

51,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur to propose that literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing texts for a primarily national readership, modern writers can collate diverse cultural, literary, and linguistic traditions to create new modes of expression that she designates as ""hybrid texts.
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Romantic Revisions In Novels From The Americas

de Lauren Rule Maxwell

51,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novelsâ€"Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacockâ€"that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry.
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Kundera And Modernity

de Liisa Steinby

51,66€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity.
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Text And Image In Modern European Culture

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors to this title shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, it explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design, hybrid texts, and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies.
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Asian Diaspora And East-West Modernity

de Sheng-Mei Ma

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Maâ€™s Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernityâ€™s illusion and nothingâ€™s infinitude.
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Jesuit Garden In Beijing And Early Modern Chinese Culture

de Hui Zou

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Analyses historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, it explores the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context.
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Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies

39,74€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 The studies presented in the collected volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and East European culture with special attention to Hungarian culture, literature, cinema, new media, and other areas of cultural expression.
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From Burke And Wordsworth To The Modern Sublime In Chinese Literature

de Yi Zheng

26,49€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime - the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress - from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China.
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Transnational Discourses On Class, Gender, And Cultural Identity

de Irene Marques

30,46€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity focuses on the work of four writers: Mia Couto, Jose Saramago, Clarice Lispector and J.M. Coetzee. It argues that these writers are political in the sense that they bring to the forefront issues pertaining to the power of literature to represent, misrepresent, and debate matter related to different subaltern subjects: the postcolonial subject, the poor subject, and the female subject.
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Asian Diaspora And East-West Modernity

de Sheng-Mei Ma

22,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Maâ€™s Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernityâ€™s illusion and nothingâ€™s infinitude.
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From Burke And Wordsworth To The Modern Sublime In Chinese Literature

de Yi Zheng

19,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 A historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime - the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress - from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China.
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Kundera And Modernity

de Liisa Steinby

37,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analysing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of the existential problems in the culture of modernity.
INGLÊS

A Jesuit Garden In Beijing And Early Modern Chinese Culture

de Hui Zou

19,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Analyses historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing. Through detailed examination of historical literature and representations, it explores the ways in which the Jesuits accommodated their design within the Chinese cultural context.
INGLÊS

Text And Image In Modern European Culture

22,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors to this title shed new light on the relations between literature and the visual arts in Europe after 1850. Following tenets of comparative cultural studies, it explores international creative dialogues between writers and visual artists, ekphrasis in literature, literature and design, hybrid texts, and text and image relations under the impact of modern technologies.
INGLÊS

Transnational Discourses On Class, Gender, And Cultural Identity

de Irene Marques

22,08€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity focuses on the work of four writers: Mia Couto, Jose Saramago, Clarice Lispector and J.M. Coetzee. It argues that these writers are political in the sense that they bring to the forefront issues pertaining to the power of literature to represent, misrepresent, and debate matter related to different subaltern subjects: the postcolonial subject, the poor subject, and the female subject.
INGLÊS

Romantic Revisions In Novels From The Americas

de Lauren Rule Maxwell

37,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novelsâ€"Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Harris's Palace of the Peacockâ€"that contain crucial scenes engaging British Romantic poetry.
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Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies

28,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 The studies presented in the collected volume are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and East European culture with special attention to Hungarian culture, literature, cinema, new media, and other areas of cultural expression.
INGLÊS

Comparative Cultural Studies And The New Weltliteratur

37,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

DISPONIBILIDADE IMEDIATA

 In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur to propose that literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing texts for a primarily national readership, modern writers can collate diverse cultural, literary, and linguistic traditions to create new modes of expression that she designates as ""hybrid texts.
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Cultural Exchanges Between Brazil And France

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. In this volume, international scholars evaluate these reciprocal transnational explorations, from the earliest French interventions in Brazil in the sixteenth century to the growing mutual influence that the nations have exerted on one another in the twenty-first century.
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