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Pp. Zustand: Sehr gut. 244 S. ; 22 cm. Tadelloses Exemplar. - On Utopia, Adaptation, and Utopian Film Analysis -- Artur Blaim and Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim -- H G Wells's and Cameron Menzies' Things To Come: -- A Neurotic Utopia of Progress -- Justyna Galant -- The "Speaking Picture": Frank Capra's Adaptation -- of James Hilton's Lost Horizon -- Katarzyna Pisarska -- Visualizing the "Shadow World": Dystopian Reality -- in the Film Adaptations of Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga -- "As if it wasn't a good island": Failed and Forgotten Utopias in the Cinematic Adaptations of William Golding's Lord of the Flies Artur Blaim -- The World in (Dis)harmony: Yevgeni Sherstobitov's The Andromeda Nebula Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk -- Between the Scylla of Estrangement and the Charybdis of Naturalisation: Two Television Adaptations oí Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Grzegorz Maziarczyk -- From Philip K Dick's Dystopian World to Hollywood Utopian Vision: "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," Wunderkammer, Memory and Total Recall Zofia Kolbuszewska -- From Ideal Community to the Land of Cockayne: Redefining Utopia -- in The Secret Garden by Agnieszka Holland -- Barbara Klonowska -- Dystopian Topography of Noise: "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, -- Bruce Pittman, and Chandler Turtle -- Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim -- Parts Unknown: Strategies of Disappropriation -- in Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go -- Marta Kontsta. ISBN 9783631628447 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 428.

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Zustand: Sehr gut. 322 S. A word of explanation is necessary about the principles underlying the theoretical grounds for selection of the texts singled out for analysis in the present study. This book is conceived as an attempt at investigating the theo-retical literary and cultural semiotic roots and premises behind the making of Wells's short fiction of the fantastic type, which, according to many critics, constitutes the most important group. It is commonly recognized that many of Wells's fantastic texts triggered new literary conventions. Bernard Bergonzi notices that Wells's idea of a "kink" in space, used in "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes" (1895) and others, has become a convention in science fiction. Brian Ash points out how "A Story of the Days to Come" (1899) sets forth some major conventions of dystopian fiction. Darko Suvin sees "The Star" (1897) as "the epitome of the colliding worlds theme". Patrick Parrinder recognizes Wells as "the pivotal figure in the evolution of the scientific romance into modern science fiction" thanks to his application of what was to become the standard themes of science fiction, such as time-travel, alien invasion, biological mutation, the future city, and a dystopian vision of society. Parrinder also speaks of Wells's "new generic combination". For these reasons, this book focuses predominantly on the separate supragenological type of short stories and novellas that can be best distinguished through the principle of the binary structure of the fictional world. ISBN 9783631653722 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 518 Fadengehefteter Originalpappband.

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Pp. Zustand: Sehr gut. 207 S. ; 22 cm, 380 g Tadelloses Exemplar. 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 &ltI>Lust's Dominion&lt/I>, Markham and Sampson's &ltI>Herod and Antipater &lt/I>or &ltI>Thierry and Theodoret &lt/I>by Beaumont and Fletcher. Contents Introduction 9 CHAPTER I. The semiotics of revenge 19 The Revenger's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton. Permutations of revenge 20 The True Tragedy of Herod and Antipater by Gervase Markham, William Sampson. Wayward semiosis 36 Lust's Dominion or the Lascivious Queen, Anonymous. Semioticising blackness 48 CHAPTER II. Playing with sentiments 63 The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. The uses of mimicry 63 Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton. Love, game, and bargain 77 The Maid's Tragedy by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Upgraded grief and romance regained 91 CHAPTER III. Virtuous heroines and the world of the carnivalesque 105 Thierry and Theodoret by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Double semiosis of female nature 106 The Wonder of Women, Or The Tragedy of Sophonisba by John Marston. Grotesque avatar and carnivalesque justice 125 CHAPTER IV. Topographies of possible worlds 143 The (Second) Maiden's Tragedy by Thomas Middleton. Landscaping meaning 143 The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. The semiosis of private worlds 155 The White Devil by John Webster. Discourse in limbos 173 ISBN 9783631626269 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 356.

Originalhardcover. Zustand: Wie neu. 214 S. ; 22 cm. Tadelloses Exemplar. // Englisch. // 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. - "In her book, Marta Komsta meticulously analyzes the evolution of the urban chronotope in ten of Ackroyd's novels written over more than thirty' years. In doing so, it takes an unusually nuanced position in the ongoing debate about postmodernism's relation to history, demonstrating how Ackroyd's flagrantly metafictional and performative works tire at the same time deeply, complexly and sincerely historiographical." John M. Krafft Miami University, Ohio. / (Verlagstext) - INHALT : Introduction --- Chapter 1. The Society of the Spectacle --- The Great Fire of London --- The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde --- Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem --- Chapter 2. A Lesson in Anatomy --- English Music --- The Clerkenwell Tales --- Chapter 3. Domus Obscurata, or the Darkened House --- Hawksmoor --- The House of Doctor Dee --- Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum, or the Unity of the Opposites. --- The Plato Papers --- The Fall of Troy --- Chapter 5. The Eternal City --- Three Brothers --- Conclusion --- Bibliography --- Index. ISBN 9783631626184 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 383.

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Originalhardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 236 S. Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - Assuming these forces to be the two major sources of all literature, the author delineates, using deconstruction, how they inform and structure Carson's poetic uvre. 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 Carson's 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 Carson's broadly ethical project. ISBN 9783631647455 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 396.

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Pp. Zustand: Sehr gut. 350 S. ; 22 cm Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Acknowledgements 9 -- Introduction. The Case of Iain (M.) Banks 11 -- Chapter 1. Ab Ovo: The Wasp Factory as the Blueprint of Fictional Worlds 33 -- 1.1. Model ONE: Alternative Worlds 41 -- 1.2. Model TWO: Community Worlds 54 -- 1.3. Model THREE: Mythical Worlds 68 -- 1.4. Model FOUR: Apocalyptic Worlds 79 -- Chapter 2. Alternative Worlds: Walking on Glass, -- The Bridge, and Transition 91 -- 2.1. Language, Literature, and Multiple Reality -- in Walking on Glass 92 -- 2.2. Into the Subconscious: The Dream Worlds of The Bridge 112 -- 2.3. Across the Multiverse: The Many Worlds of Transition 130 -- Chapter 3. Community Worlds: The Crow Road, -- The Steep Approach to Garbadale, -- Espedair Street, and Stonemouth 143 -- 3.1. The Wor(l)ds of Magic, Memory, -- and Truth in The Crow Road 144 -- 3.2. Gardens of Love and Communities of the Heart in -- The Steep Approach to Garbadale 164 -- 3.3. The Land of Music and the Music -- of Homeland in Espedair Street 175 -- 3.4. Big Movies and Private Narratives in Stonemouth 189 -- Chapter 4. Mythical Worlds: Whit, Canal Dreams, -- and The Business 201 -- 4.1. Into the Unholy Lands: the Pilgrimage -- of a Goddess in Whit 202 -- 4.2. A Female Samurai's Journey -- to the Centre in Canal Dreams 217 -- 4.3. The Virgin, the Mother, the Crone: the Return -- of a Mythical Woman in The Business 238 -- Chapter 5. Apocalyptic Worlds: A Song of Stone, -- Complicity, and Dead Air. 253 -- 5.1. King Arthur in Distress: Post-apocalyptic -- Transgressions in A Song of Stone 254 -- 5.2. From Virtual Reality to the Waste Land: Public -- Apocalypse and Post-traumatic Syndrome in Complicity 268 -- 5.3. On-Screen Catastrophes and Post-apocalyptic -- Romances in Dead Air 285 -- Chapter 6. Coda: The Quarry 303 -- Conclusion 321 -- Bibliography 333 -- Index 345 ISBN 9783631626146 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 472.

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Pp. Zustand: Wie neu. 321 S. ; 22 cm Tadellos. - Contents -- From Character to Identity . and back? -- Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga, Jadwiga Wfgrodzka 7 -- PART I CHARACTERS IN TEXTUAL CONTEXTS -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "Sister Helen": -- A functional approach to the literary character -- Andr&j Zgorzelski 27 -- Joseph Conrad's "The Partner": Character and language -- (Carolina. Trapp 42 -- Peter Straub's Shadowland: Character in the liminal space -- Slawomir Studniarz 54 -- Anita Desai's fiction: Marginalisation as a technique of character creation -- Joanna Pasternak 69 -- A. S. Byatt's The Children's Book: The functions of flanks and ficelles -- Magdalena Kuzniar 79 -- Charles Williams's Shadows of Ecstasy. -- Cognitive aspects of character interpretation -- Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk 95 -- PART II CHARACTERS IN GENERIC CONTEXTS -- "A Jew, and circumcised": Constructing collective -- and individual characters in early modern Utopian fictions -- ArturBlaim 115 -- Recent Secondary World Fantasy: Farewell to the hero? -- Grzegorz Trqbicki 129 -- The realistic novel and the creation of literary characters: -- William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury -- Zaneta Nalewajk 144 -- 6 Characters in Literary Fictions -- Character sketch and its fantastic transformations: -- H. G. Wells's "The Crystal Egg" -- HalszkaLelen 153 -- Reconstructing the Gothic villain: -- Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House -- MartaKomsta 163 -- Character in the academic mystery novel: -- Joanne Dobson's The Raven and the Nightingale -- Elzbieta Perkowska-Gawlik 184 -- Possible men and women of science: -- Constru(ct)ing characters in academic fictions -- Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim 198 -- PART III CHARACTERS IN EXTRA-TEXTUAL CONTEXTS -- Terry Pratchett's Lord Vetinari as a transtextual character -- Kamil Karas 211 -- Breaking out and speaking: Old myths and narrative tensions -- in Ursula LeGuin's Lavinia -- Katarzyna Pisarska 221 -- Transtextual characters in literary adaptations: -- E.M. Forster's Howards End and Zadie Smith's On Beauty -- Patrycja Podgajna 246 -- Irony as the principle of constructing a character: -- Beryl Bainbridge's Young Adolf -- Barbara Klonowska 256 -- Characters in mythical and historical contexts: -- William Golding's "The Scorpion God" -- Jadwiga Wfgrodzka 268 -- Counterfactual model of the self: J.M. Coetzee's Summertime -- Dominika Szwajewska 284 -- Works Cited 294 -- Index 312 -- Contributors 317 ISBN 9783631640562 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 504.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen¿s fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen¿s prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters¿ identity. In her book, Olena Lytovka focuses on an important aspect of Elizabeth Bowen¿s fiction ¿ the motif of the uncanny house. By applying the Freudian notion of the unheimlich to the analysis of selected novels and short stories, Lytovka demonstrates how the traumatic experience of loss is mirrored in the characters¿ perception of the domestic space as uncanny. The uncanny, she argues, is a reflection of the psychological condition of the perceiving mind in the state of crisis rather than the quality of the space. This insightful and well-researched study is a valuable contribution to Bowen criticism and will be relevant to literary scholars and students alike. (Anna K¿dra-Kardela, Maria Curie-Sk¿odowska University in Lublin) 142 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The book focuses on the uncanny in the domestic space of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. Providing a psychoanalytic reading of selected works it aims to examine the image of the house in Bowen's prose and to analyse its uncanniness in relation to the characters' identity. In her book, Olena Lytovka focuses on an important aspect of Elizabeth Bowen's fiction - the motif of the uncanny house. By applying the Freudian notion of the unheimlich to the analysis of selected novels and short stories, Lytovka demonstrates how the traumatic experience of loss is mirrored in the characters' perception of the domestic space as uncanny. The uncanny, she argues, is a reflection of the psychological condition of the perceiving mind in the state of crisis rather than the quality of the space. This insightful and well-researched study is a valuable contribution to Bowen criticism and will be relevant to literary scholars and students alike. (Anna Kedra-Kardela, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin).