Bertrams apr 2011 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - bTitle:/b History of the Manor and Advowson of Clifford Chambers and some account of its possessors. Reprinted from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archæologial Society, etc.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b/b British Librarybr/b/b Maclean, John; br/b/b 1890.br/b/b 68 p. ; 8º.br/b/b 10348.d.19.(8.)br/.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The outcome of the first international conference on David Mitchell's writing, this collection of critical essays, focuses on his first three novels - Ghostwritten (1999), number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) - to provide a sustained analysis of Mitchell's complex narrative techniques and the literary, political and cultural implications of his early work. The essays cover topics ranging from narrative structure, genre and the Bildungsroman to representations of Japan, postmodernism, the construction of identity, utopia, science fiction and postcolonialism. Contents Foreword David Mitchell 1. Introducing David Mitchell's Universe: A Twenty-First Century House of Fiction Sarah Dillon 2. The Novels in Nine Parts Peter Childs and James Green 3. 'Or something like that': Coming of Age in number9dream Kathryn Simpson 4. Remediations of 'Japan' in number9dream Baryon Tensor Posadas 5. The Stories We Tell: Discursive Identity Through Narrative Form in Cloud Atlas Courtney Hopf 6. Cloud Atlas: From Postmodernity to the Posthuman Hélène Machinal 7. Cloud Atlas and If on a winter's night a traveller: Fragmentation and Integrity in the Postmodern Novel Will McMorran 8. 'Strange Transactions': Utopia, Transmigration and Time in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas Caroline Edwards 9. Speculative Fiction as Postcolonial: Critique in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas Nicholas Dunlop 10. 'Moonlight bright as a UFO abduction': Science Fiction, Present-Future Alienation and Cognitive Mapping William Stephenson Notes on Contributors Index About the Editor Sarah Dillon is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. She is author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007) and has published essays on Jacques Derrida, Elizabeth Bowen, H.D., Michel Faber, Maggie Gee and David Mitchell.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Comparison underlies all reading. Readers compare words to words, and books to all the other books which they have read. Some books, however, demand a particular comparative effort - for example, novels which contain parallel plot lines. In this ambitious and important study Catherine Brown compares Daniel Deronda with Anna Karenina and Women in Love in order to answer the following questions: why does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst another succeeds Can their failure and success be understood on the same terms How do the novels' uses of comparison compare to each other How relevant is George Eliot's influence on Lev Tolstoi, and Tolstoi's on D. H. Lawrence Does Tolstoi being a Russian make this a 'comparative' literary study And what does the 'comparative' in 'comparative literature' actually mean Criticism is combined with metacriticism, to explore how novels and critics compare. Catherine Brown is a lecturer in English at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.…