maria curie sklodowska university press lublin (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Front cover has a crease at lower leading corner and a few small marks. Place and date penned to half-title page. No other faults. AD. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Large 8vo. pp 208. Large format paperback. ISBN: 9788322726662 Fine.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Joseph Conrad's Texts and Intertexts. In Honour of Professor Wieslaw Krajka is a collection of studies that examine various aspects of Joseph Conrad's literary art, with the organizing ideas being textuality and intertextuality, both broadly understood. Intertextual relationships are perceived in terms of influence of literary, cultural, and philosophical tradition upon his oeuvre, but also affinities between and departures from the works of his predecessors (Miquel Cervantes, John Milton, post-Miltonian tradition), contemporaries (Henry James, H. G. Wells), and those who followed him (Aksel Sandemose, Premendra Mitra) and adapted his works (Janos Gosztonyi). Textuality is seen from the perspective of the artistic organization of his texts, but also as a means with which to identify the interpretative paths and thematic interests, in particular the social, moral, and economic issues that he tackled in his fiction. The papers apply various theoretical perspectives, ranging from Bakhtinian ethics and Lacanian criticism to Jean-Francois Lyotard's philosophy and Georg Simmel's sociology. Thematically, the essays tackle such diverse issues as escapism, femininity, the arts, illicit conduct, fidelity, secrecy, isolation, immigration, otherness, terrorism, and social equality. Each new reading unveils Conrad's artistic genius as the authors re-evaluate both the critically acclaimed and the less known works. From this constellation of international scholarship there emerges one common trait discernible in Conrad's works, both when they analysed on their own and in juxtaposition with those of other writers: ambivalence. This stimulates ever new interpretations and indicate Conrad's unparalleled ability to provoke readers to constantly rediscover artistic and ethical dimensions of his oeuvre. This book is volume 32 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wieslaw Krajka. A collection of studies that examine various aspects of Joseph Conrads literary art, with the organizing ideas being textuality and intertextuality Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Large 8vo. pp 286. Large format paperback. Subjects included in the index: Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, Franz Roh, Jerzy Kamionowski, Fay Weldon, Salman Rushdie, Lois Parkinson Zamora, John Haffenden, Emma Tennant, Jeanette Winterson and Wendy Faris. ISBN: 8322726104 Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Paperback, 166 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright copy with unmarked text and tight binding. Cover mildly shelfworn with a small crease to upper edge of front panel. Spine unbroken/uncreased. --- Une des caractéristiques les plus constantes de la jeune littérature narrative française est l'affirmation catégorique de la véracité des histoires que relatent les récits. Cette persévérance témoigne sans doute d'un puissant goût du vrai. Mais le retour systématique des protestations de la vérité semble témoigner également d'une suspicion, d'une incertitude que pourrait susciter le texte : l'insistance sur l'affirmation de sa véracité présuppose la nature discutable de celle-ci, sa vulnérabilité à la contestation, à la mise en cause. Or, la vérté que déclare communiquer le texte littéraire médiéval est une réalité complexe, composée de deux éléments identifiables, mais très différénts du point de vue de leur système de référence - de la vérité événementielle, historique et de la vérité qui renvoie à la doxa. La question se pose de savoir quelles sont les relations entre les deux types de vérité englobés dans une seule notion et manifestés dans l'oeuvre littéraire. Se laissent-elles séparer aisément l'une de l'autre ou restent-elles inextricables ? Peut-on parler d'une fusion ou faut-il y voir plutôt deux composantes bien distinctes, susceptibles d'entrer, par exemple, dans une relation polémique au sein d'un texte ? C'est justement sur ces interrogations que porte ce livre. Maciei Abramowicz, médiéviste, professeur à l'Université Marie Curie-Sklodowska de Lublin. A publié aux Editions de l'UMCS : "La formule, l'imaginaire et le monde des valeurs" (1991) et "Réécrire au Moyen Age" (1996).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. pp 209. Large format paperback. ISBN: 8322719957 Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Large 8vo. pp 75. Large format paperback, Illustrated covers. . A study of Peter Jackson's fTolkien films, consisting a collection of essays written at different times and delivered to different audiences mention of Galadriel, monsters, Beowulf. ISBN: 8322723911 About fine.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Joseph Conrad's ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet its study has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is one of very few books fully devoted to ethics in Conrad's fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrad's ethical reflection that challenges and extends current scholarly discussions.The authors of this theoretically informed, accessible volume examine Conrad's representation of ethics through the lens of Levinas, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and Ricoeur, among others, and confront Conrad's ethical perspective to these philosophers' views. Through detailed studies of works like "Heart of Darkness," The Secret Agent, Lord Jim and Under Western Eyes, they navigate the conflicted terrain of ethics and morality, highlighting the enmeshment of ethics and aesthetics, ethics and narrative, and ethics and ideology in Conrad's fiction. The key issues they address include the ethics of storytelling and readership, ethical commitment and detachment, the ethics of uncertainty and uneasiness, and planetary ethics and ethical disillusionment. Conrad is ambivalent about ethics and this interdisciplinary volume pivots around a fundamental Conradian ethical paradox: how to account for ethical responsibility in a world not meant for ethics in the first place and, as Conrad stated, whose "aim cannot be ethical at all." It demonstrates that Conrad adopts a planetary ethics that embraces the human condition in its universality, while he also doubts the viability of ethics itself. Via his protagonists' moral predicaments he expresses both the necessity of ethics in human relationships and the impossibility of individual ethical fulfillment.The book is volume 30 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wieslaw Krajka. It explores a major, understudied Conradian topic Ethics, and adds an important thematic and theoretical dimension to this series. The chapters are written by experts from various universities worldwide, in keeping with the international, cosmopolitan spirit of Eastern and Western Perspectives. The authors' wide-ranging, original perspectives on ethics open new venues in Conrad scholarship that will greatly benefit scholars and students of Conrad, modernism, and ethics. Joseph Conrads ethical perspective is one of the deepest in twentieth-century fiction, yet it has been overlooked in recent scholarship. Joseph Conrad and Ethics is fully devoted to ethics in Conrads fiction. It offers a thorough, in-depth analysis of Conrads ethical reflection that challenges and extends current discussions. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback, 204 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean, bright, tight, free of inscriptions and stamps; firmly bound with straight, uncreased spine. Gentle internal creases along the side outer edge. A small brown mark on upper outer page edges externally. --- Table des matieres: Avant-propos; Chapitre 1 Preliminaires: Qu'est-ce que le jeu? Analyse de la notion et du phénomène; Le discours sur le jeu en sciences humaines; Jouer à la littérature; Chapitre 2 Entre le reel et l'irreel. Les ambiguites de l'univers romanesque: Introduction; Le cadre spatio-temporel (Modalités de construction du cadre spatio-temporel; Jeux des univers); Les personnages (Identité; Actions; Mise en texte); Synthèse; Chapitre 3 La structure ludique: Introduction; Les expérimentations langagières (Variations de transcription et plurilinguisme littéraire; Grammaire et syntaxe; Lexique et style); Le récit subversif (Composition du récit et éléments de la narration; Fusion des genres); Le texte comme jeu et ses nouvelles règles (Contraintes mathématiques; Transtextualité); Synthèse; Chapitre 4 Valeurs et sens: le serieux de/dans l'humour: Introduction; Niveau de l'intrigue (Construction de l'univers romanesque; Organisation des personnages); Niveau du discours (Microorganisation - structures linguistiques; Microorganisation - structures textuelles); Synthèse; Conclusion; Bibliographie.

8vo. pp 158. Printed laminated boards. Fine condition. Fine. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 492 pages, glossy paper, numerous illustrations in text, glossary (pp 449-482), selected bibliography, NOT ex-library. Weight 1.3kg. Book shows minor wear. Clean and bright internally, with unmarked text, firm binding, free of inscriptions and stamps. Rear board with light scratches and a few tiny sharp indentations. Issued without a dust jacket. -- An engaging and comprehensive resource for learners who want to advance their Polish language skills while deepening their understanding of Polish culture. The book is designed for intermediate-level students and incorporates cultural readings, vocabulary, and grammar exercises. These components provide learners with essential linguistic tools while also offering insights into Poland's traditions, literature, history, and contemporary society. The text integrates a variety of cultural topics, including folklore, national identity, holidays, literature, and everyday life. The accompanying exercises help reinforce language acquisition and improve fluency, focusing on reading comprehension, vocabulary expansion, grammar consolidation, and cultural context. Each section is crafted to build both linguistic competence and cultural awareness, making it ideal for learners who wish to gain a holistic understanding of the Polish language while exploring its cultural backdrop. This reader not only offers practical language skills but also encourages critical thinking about Polish culture through texts that challenge learners to reflect on historical and modern-day aspects of life in Poland. -- "This book may be used independently, or in conjunction with Oscar Swan's Intermediate Polish (1986). It consists of questions related to the dialogues and questions based on the readings contained in Swan and grammatical exercises keyed to the grammar presented in Swan. The purpose of this material is to expand upon and to complement the material contained in Swan's textbook, offering the student a more comprehensive set of drills and readings.".

8vo. pp 209. PASE Studies & Monographs. Fine. First Edition. Wraps.

8vo. pp 286. Discusses Fairy Tale, Myth, fantasy etc. Fine. First Edition. Wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. Large 8vo. pp 455. Large format paperback. Some illus. Contributors include: David Harding, Lawrence E. Hussman, Justyna Kociatkiewicz, Julia Fiedorczuk, Agata Preisz - SmithMarek Paryz, Ewa Luczak and Tomasz Basiuk. ISBN: 8322719582 subjects include Laura Riding , Thoreau Edward Hopper, Homophobia Black Nationalism Thomas Jefferson Louise Erdrich John Barth , Clint Eastwood, Sylvia PlathAmerican Polish newspapers,J Edgar Hoover. Hello Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 291. Illustrated laminated boards. Issued without dust jacket. Contributors include: Roman Kuzniar, Agata Zietek, Anna Moraczewska, Joanna Malinga, Jakub Olchowski, Ireneusz Topolski. ISBN: 8322719752 Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This monograph brings together studies that deal with various aspects of Joseph Conrad's literary art. The core concept organizing its structure is intertextuality. Intertextual relationships are seen in terms of either affinities/points of contact and the influence of earlier literary works upon his oeuvre or the influence of Conrad's texts upon literary works by authors following him. Each such relationship is understood as a chord that is vibrant and resonates with new meanings that emerge from the juxtaposition of literary works by Conrad with those by other artists; these new meanings add additional value and significance to Conrad's literary art.The papers create a truly international constellation of criticism, with their authors affiliated at universities in France, United Kingdom, Turkey, India, Japan, and Poland. The papers apply various types of comparative treatment of Joseph Conrad's texts: to juxtapose them with literary works by other authors, with specimens of a literary genre, with texts of other fine arts, with aesthetic, philosophical, and ideological tendencies of the epoch. They apply a diverse range of perspectives to Conrad's literary art, its intertexts, and contexts. The book is a tribute to the literary artistry of Conrad's literary output, to its tremendous and inexhaustible semantic and artistic potential to be further explored. This monograph groups studies that deal with intertextual aspects of Joseph Conrads literary art. Intertextual relationships are seen in terms of either affinities/points of contact and the influence of earlier literary works upon his oeuvre, or the influence of Conrads texts upon literary works by authors following him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Anna Brzozowska-Krajka's Ethnoculture in the Diaspora: Between Regionalism and Americanisation is a pioneering monograph in Polish and American cultural studies. It deals with various aspects of the functioning of Polish immigrants' folk culture in the context of American multiculturalism. This monograph is based on its author's many years of research into the culture of Polish immigrants in the United States, mainly in the areas of metropolitan Chicago and on the East Coast. It defines the significance of the local (regional) cultures of the immigrants' country of origin for shaping their cultural identity under the conditions of diaspora. It indicates various degrees of identification with and distance from the source culture (of the country of origin).The monograph presents, interprets, and theorizes various forms of cultural expression of the Tatra highlander ethnic subgroup (Gorals) within American Polonia, of the private and public face of its ethnicity. They include musical, song, and dance folklore, folk rituals (of the liturgical year, family rituals), folk art, folk costume, regional architecture, and ethno-marketing. Ethnoculture in the Diaspora is an essential work for the increasingly important field of folkloristic investigations of diasporic cultures that draw on the application of methods from the anthropology of culture and cultural studies. The study also has diagnostic value in the context of the explosion of ethnicity in the U.S. since the 1960s. Anna Brzozowska-Krajkas Ethnoculture in the Diaspora: Between Regionalism and Americanisation is a pioneering monograph in Polish and American cultural studies. It deals with various aspects of the functioning of Polish immigrants folk culture in the context of American multiculturalism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Joseph Conrad and the Voicing of Textuality offers an original approach to Conrad's work rooted in linguistics and psychoanalytic theory. Claude Maisonnat provides fresh insight into the poetics of textuality by introducing the concept of textual voice, as opposed to the traditional conceptions of authorial voice and narrative voice. Understood as the main vector of poeticity in a text, textual voice is an offshoot of the Lacanian object-voice trimmed to fit a literary context. It enables the reader to uncover deeply concealed motivations and perceive unsuspected connections to the biographical background of the texts. At the same time, it offers new ways of structuring close reading and opens vistas into the mysteries of creation. Maisonnat gives insightful readings of Conrad's best-known and less widely read works while developing a theoretically rich framework to tackle the notions of style and voice in literature.This book is volume 26 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives, edited by Wieslaw Krajka. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This collection of studies examines the various types and uses of ideas of "the other" and othering in Joseph Conrad's fiction. It offers examinations of different aspects of the colonial other both in Africa and Latin America, including a personal reminiscence of American imperialism by a descendant of a character mentioned in Conrad's fiction.The first three papers offer insights into Conrad's artistic presentation of both the historical and concrete side of capitalism and imperialism as well as the universal aspects of these social-political-economic formations. The next four studies theorize the colonial other, from European/Western perspectives and from Third World perspectives. The final four papers concern otherness in seamanship, in terms of the imperial other and alterity, and the female as other, othering by gender.The dimensions of the other in Conrad's fiction that the collection examines are mainly colonial, imperial, and civilizational, set in the realities of geographical space of Africa, Latin America, and the Far East, the reality at sea, and the reality of gendered humanity. They are grounded in various contexts significant for Conrad's epoch: both domestic and pertaining to English and European colonial-imperial overseas expansion, and illuminated from both English/Western and Third World perspectives.Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad's Fiction features both general theoretical arguments and distinctive methodological approaches to Conrad's oeuvre, such as historical contextualization and source studies, postcolonial theory, imagology, Levinas's theory of alterity, the Lacanian theory of jouissance, literary feminism, and personal narrative.The book is volume 29 of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives: within this series it offers the first complex and direct treatment of multifarious incarnations of the other in Joseph Conrad's fiction.The studies included create a truly international constellation of criticism, with authors at universities in the United States of America, France, Switzerland, Ukraine, Algeria, Iran, Japan, and Poland. Owing to their unique national and cultural-literary backgrounds and perspectives upon Joseph Conrad's oeuvre, Various Dimensions of the Other in Joseph Conrad's Fiction continues and strengthens the transnational profile of the series Conrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives. This collection of studies examines the various types and uses of ideas of the other and othering in Joseph Conrads fiction. It offers examinations of different aspects of the colonial other both in Africa and Latin America. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

8vo. pp 165. Contributors: Markus Dotterweich, Leszek Gawrysiak, Radoslaw Janicki and many others. First Edition. Wraps.

8vo. pp 245. About fine. First Edition. Wraps.

Soft cover. Condition: New. xvi, 280 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. Contributions in English, German, and Italian. Vorwort des Herausgebers der Reihe »Bibliotheca nubica et aethiopica« Grusswort der Vorsitzenden der Orbis-Aethiopicus-Gesellschaft an den Jubilar Stanistaw Chojnacki Inhaltsverzeichnis Bibliographic des Jubilars seit 1990 Programm der 10. wissenschaftlichen Konferenz in Leipzig "Ethiopian Art -A Unique Cultural Heritage and Modern Challenge" vom 24.-26. Juni 2005 (Faksimile) STANISLAW CHOJNACKI - New discoveries: the Italianate school reconsidered (with 14 fig.) Geschichte & Politik RITA PANKHURST - Art in the the service of diplomacy in Shawa in the early eighteen-forties: "A treaty, and a letter from King Sahla Sellase to Queen Victoria" (with 20 fig.) RUDOLF AGSTNER - Austria - Ethiopia: a century of diplomatic relations URSULA GEHRING-MUNZEL -100 Jahre deutsch-athiopische diplomatische Beziehungen JOACHIM PERSSON - Confronting the Revolution: The Discourse of Ethiopian Spiritual Art in a Totalitarian State Kunst und Ikonographie EVA BALICKA-WITAKOWSKA - The Wail-Paintings in the Sanctuary of the Church of Gannata Mary am near Lalibala (with IV + 13 fig.) DAVID W. PHILLIPSON - A new sequence, chronology and evaluation of the Lalibela rock-cut churches (with 5 fig.) PAUL B. HENZE - Church and monastery treasures of Tigray (private,with 12 fig.) MICHAEL GERVERS - Two late sixteenth-century Roman engravings from the rock-cut church of Maryam Dengelat (Haremat, Tigray) (with 26 fig.) RICHARD PANKHURST - Detached Ethiopian Illustrated Manuscript Folios from Maqdala (with 5 fig.) ELISABETH BIASIO - Die zeitgenossische Malerei im traditionellen Stil - Berhanu Yemanu und sein Sohn Getaccaw Berhanu (mit 9 Abb.n) DOROTHEA McEwAN - White on Black. The 'Ethiopians' in The Image of the Black in Western Art (with 29 fig.) PIOTR O. SCHOLZ - Wer war der Mohrenkonig in Bethlehem? (mit 12 Abb.n) Varia CHRISTINE CHAILLOT - Veneration of Icons in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church MAGDELENA STOYANOVA - Denominazioni amariche in una ricetta copta per tingere la lana (& faximile).