This book explores linguistic representations and cultural conceptualizations of the relationship between time and space in ancient China, as expressed by the YiChing. The YiChing, an ancient Chinese divination manual...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231219167)
Downtime explores the history and aesthetics of slow motion, from its origins in early film to its prominence today. Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 17-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231219150)
Downtime explores the history and aesthetics of slow motion, from its origins in early film to its prominence today. Slow motion has become perhaps the least special effect in film and media, a stylistic technique for showing violence,...Daugiau...
Offering pluralised and context-sensitives approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literatures engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking time. Li...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Nov-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781837721924)
A consideration of literary geography as a specialist academic field.Interspatiality is a book about the language, theory, and practice of a literary geography which takes as its subject matter the inseparability of writing, rea...Daugiau...
Posing new questions about realism and the creative power of narratives, Mucignat offers fresh readings of novels by Goethe, Jane Austen, Alessandro Manzoni, Stendahl, Charles Dickens and Gustave Flaubert, to examine the links between the nineteenth-...Daugiau...
Blending history and architecture with literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convents place in the early modern imagination. The author brackets her account between two pivotal events: the Council of Trent imposing strict enclos...Daugiau...
Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environments influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays,...Daugiau...
Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, time travel is not forbidden by the laws of physics - and John Gribbin argues that if it is not impossible then it must be possible. G...Daugiau...
The book studies Alice Munros inheritance of and contribution to realism in fiction. Nobel Prize winner Munro follows the empirical tradition of the Enlightenment and draws on her life as a daughter, wife, mother, and professional writer...Daugiau...
This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different stories with different temporalities and non-chronological modes of sequence can tell of different worlds of human and non-hu...Daugiau...
This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that characte...Daugiau...
A state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture. Across four parts of exploratory, creative and speculative essays, this book provides...Daugiau...
This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic...Daugiau...
Menelaos Christopoulos offers a detailed, original, and thought-provoking analysis of the major thematic questions raised by the Homeric Odyssey. The interpretations in this book shed new light on this emblematic literary work of Western civilizatio...Daugiau...
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their spatial turn. Atsuko Sakakis method exploits intensive and rigorous cl...Daugiau...
Serija: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438493213)
What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common? The poet and artist William Blakes geometrythe conception of space-time that informs his work a...Daugiau...
