Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to 'put forth an argument for extending the study of American

Recitatif - Toni Morrisonová

Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at

The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment (Chico Tita)(Pevná vazba)

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of

The Black Butterfly: Brazilian Slavery and the Literary Imagination (Wood Marcus)(Pevná vazba)

Focuses on the slavery writings of three of Brazil's literary giants - Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and Euclides da Cunha. Wood finds that all three writers responded to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has

Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination (Tan Kathy-Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors,

Batman by Grant Morrison Omnibus Vol. 1 (Morrison Grant)(Pevná vazba)

One of the greatest storytellers of his generation, Grant Morrison's arrival in the world of the Dark Knight changed the character forever. Now collecting the entirety of this epic saga, this first of three omnibus collections introduces Batman to his son, Damian Wayne, and takes the Caped Crusader

The Origin of Others (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others?

The Modern Myths: Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination (Ball Philip)(Pevná vazba)

'Impressive. . . . Rich in cultural history and imagination. . . . To Ball, mythic writing is where the conditions of irrationality, superstition, and enchantment persist: forms of wonder that depend on the disconnect between what we know for sure and what we simply believe.'--New York Times Book

Not George Washington (Wodehouse P.G.)(Pevná vazba)

Using multiple narrators, playing with literary stereotypes and identities, this title tells the story of an aspiring young writer, James Orlebar Cloyster, prepared to do almost anything, first for success and then for

Song Of Solomon (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

The story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Through the enlightenment of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and

Paradise (Morrison Toni)(Paperback)

In prose that soars with the rhythms, grandeur, and tragic arc of an epic poem, Toni Morrison challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present. 'They

The Origins of the Literary Vampire (Crawford Heide)(Pevná vazba)

The long and distinguished tradition of the literary vampire began in Germany during the Age of Enlightenment. German literature was the first to adapt the vampire figure from central European folklore and superstition and give it literary form. Despite these German origins, scholarly attention

Beloved (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose name is the single word on the tombstone, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim

Jasper Morrison: The Hard Life (Morrison Jasper)(Pevná vazba)

By what means did so much beauty and ingenuity appear in articles of everyday rural life in Portugal? How did the shape of these objects balance necessity and formal perfection so skillfully? This book explores the effect that generations of trial and error, individual craftsmanship, and an

The New Criticism: Formalist Literary Theory in America (Drake Alfred J.)(Pevná vazba)

The New Criticism: Formalist Literary Theory in America covers a variety of authors and topics related to the New Criticism of the 1920s-1950s in America. Contributors trace the history of the New Criticism as a movement, consider theoretical and practical aspects of various proponents, and assess

Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America (Davidson Guy)(Pevná vazba)

The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers--James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal--in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these

Beloved (Morrison Toni)(Pevná vazba)

Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend and

Toni Morrison and the Natural World: An Ecology of Color (Wardi Anissa Janine)(Pevná vazba)

Critics have routinely excluded African American literature from ecocritical inquiry despite the fact that the literary tradition has, from its inception, proved to be steeped in environmental concerns that address elements of the natural world and relate nature to the transatlantic slave trade,

Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (Serrano Carmen A.)(Pevná vazba)

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization,

The City of Imagination (Morabito Valerio)(Pevná vazba)

It is in the wilderness of cities rather than in nature that the imagination of these landscape drawings comes to life. Without any heroic emphasis, these drawings result from the observation of traces, evident or discreet, in the urban landscape, and the process to collect and memorize traces is

Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) (Rodrguez Prez Yolanda)(Pevná vazba)

William Blake's Gothic Imagination: Bodies of Horror (Bundock Chris)(Pevná vazba)

While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was

The Black Book (Harris Middleton A.)(Pevná vazba)

A new edition of the classic New York Times bestseller edited by Toni Morrison, offering an encyclopedic look at the black experience in America from 1619 through the 1940s with the original cover restored. 'I am so pleased the book is alive again. I still think there is no other work that tells

The Envious Siblings: And Other Morbid Nursery Rhymes (Blair Landis)(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by the dark imagination of Edward Gorey, Envious Siblings is a twisted and hauntingly funny debut. Comics artist Landis Blair interweaves absurdist horror and humor into brief, rhyming vignettes at once transgressive and hilarious. In Blair's surreal universe, a lost child watches as