Henry James and the Art of Auto/Biography

Miroslawa Buchholtz

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 6
• Henry James (1843-1916) has been widely acclaimed for the elegance of his prose, the incisiveness of his social comment, and the subtlety of his psych... Lees meer

Various Aspects of Mimesis in Selected Sea Novels of Frederick Marryat, James F. Cooper and Richard H. Dana

Joanna Mstowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 3
• Frederick Marryat's The Phantom Ship (1839), James F. Cooper's The Red Rover (1828) and Richard H. Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840) may be rega... Lees meer

The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value

Miroslawa Buchholtz

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 2
• The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children's literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led fo... Lees meer

Henry David Thoreau - Grasping the Community of the World

Tadeusz Slawek

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 7
• The study deals with human community and its relation with the individual. It takes recourse to the notions of friendship, moral respect and solidarit... Lees meer

Henry James Goes to War

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 5
• The present volume on Henry James's life and work consists of five parts devoted to various forms and aspects of conflict. Apart from addressing James... Lees meer

Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels

Slawomir Wacewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 9
• The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging imp... Lees meer

World War I from Local Perspectives

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 12
• The volume explores the ways in which the Great War has been remembered and imaged in various local accounts. It offers critical analyses and original... Lees meer

Facets of Domestication

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 10
• The volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation. The case studies are based on research project... Lees meer

The Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 1
• The volume explores selected relations between visual and verbal aspects of film, drama, literature and biography. The chapters deal with such areas a... Lees meer

Brian Moore's Eponymous Heroines

Dorota Filipczak

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 19
• This feminist study of Brian Moore's five novels with eponymous heroines compares Moore's female characters to Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Tolstoy's Ann... Lees meer

All That Gothic

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 4
• This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, aesthetics and key themes of Gothic, the main issues and debates surrounding the genre... Lees meer

The Evolution of Language

Przemyslaw Żywiczyński, Slawomir Wacewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 20
• Language evolution is a science which studies the origins and diversification of language. This book is an introduction to the topic and is addressed ... Lees meer

A Dark Transfusion

Agnieszka Lowczanin

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 16
• Examining the transfer of the Gothic to Poland-Lithuania in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, this book focuses on the influence of Ann ... Lees meer

Art, Ethics and Provocation

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 14
• The main purpose of this volume is to look into a wide spectrum of artistic ventures which provoke, challenge habitual thinking, and cross boundaries.... Lees meer

Literary and cultural forays into the contemporary

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 15
• This book offers a collection of essays in literary and cultural studies. The articles explore a wide range of distinct problems and texts with the ai... Lees meer

Language Origins

Przemyslaw Żywiczyński

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 18
• The science of language evolution appeared at the end of the last century but topically belongs to language origins - the domain of investigation conc... Lees meer

The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 13
• Twelve papers presented at the international Conference ACED Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts, held at the University of Bucharest... Lees meer

Alice Munro

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 8
• The book offers an intercultural perspective on the work of Alice Munro, the Canadian 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. The texts are divided into re... Lees meer

Nost/algia as a Mode of Reflection in the Autobiographical Narratives of Joseph Conrad and Henry James

Sylwia Wojciechowska

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 21
• Sylwia Janina Wojciechowska is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literary Studies at Ignatianum Jesuit University in Krakow, Poland. She has pu... Lees meer

Ekphrastic Conceptualism in Postmodern British and American Novels

Jaroslaw Hetman

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 11
• Discussing the ancient notion of ekphrasis, this study examines the interpenetration of literary and non-literary art. The author demonstrates how ekp... Lees meer

Beyond Diversity

• Hardcover | Engels | Dis/Continuities | nr. 17
• The book offers a collection of papers that, taken jointly, serve to show the academic potential of English Studies. The chapters, which give a cross ... Lees meer