Post-Apocalyptic Culture. Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel, Paperback - Teresa Heffernan

Heffernan uses modernist and post-modernist novels as evidence of the diminished faith in the existence of an inherently meaningful end.

Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of...

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores exa...

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ...

Reducere. One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo... " -...

Reducere. The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic tale set in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet....

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic ...

Reducere. Din cuprins: Modernitatea la granita dintre stiinta si arta, Mihai A. Stroe; Modernitatea la intilnirea dintre arte, Horia Mihail Teodorescu; Moder...

DescriptionDuring states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the ...

Reducere. Everett and Courtney Carroll have endured to the midpoint of the Great Tribulation. The previous Seal and Trumpet Judgments have left the planet in...

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and paint...

Paperback edition of Judt's final book, which was written up by Snyder from conversations he had with the great historian as he suffered from a fat...

Reducere. The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

Provides a prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

Reducere. DescriptionPlunged into a free for all lifestyle with survival of the fittest the only law, it would be easy for Cole Evans and his family to remai...

Reducere. Graham's Resolution continues with the 6th installment, The Wild West, and this time arrows fly!For fans of Lee Child and James Patterson, a medica...

Reducere. "Thoroughly enjoyed the series. Couldn't put it down... which is why I've already finished reading the book on the day it was released." - KarlFrom...

After the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth cont...

Includes the developments in the study and practice of art. With a clear year-by-year structure, this book presents 130 articles, each focusing on ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe worst has happened. Texas has fallen. It's up to Ava to get it back.Without the support of Lone Star State, the Alliance has no hope...

Reducere. Postmodernismul. Jean-Francois Lyotard si Gianni Vattimo Postmodernismul filosofic, ca post-metafizica (critica scientismului tehnocrat) si ca post...

Reducere. Felix Nicolau este profesor universitar la Departamentul de Limbi Straine si Comunicare al Universitatii Tehnice de Constructii din Bucuresti. In 2...

Provides a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how artistic statements of the er...

Sinteza esentiala pentru intelegerea unora dintre sursele istorice ale vocabularului modernitatii si postmodernitatii, cartea abordeaza formarea un...

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Inventing Tomorrow provides a definitive account of H. G. Wells's work and ideas. Sarah Cole illuminates his distinctive style as well as his inter...

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

Takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the...

This epic novel of a wide-eyed missionary and a rebellious woman thrust into China's Communist revolution is "an excellent read, panoramic in scope...

Volumul 48. Descopera Filosofia. Postmodernismul - Teresa Onate

Reducere. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejec...

Contributor(s): Author: Furio JesiTranslator: Richard BraudeIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used b...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedi...