For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwells masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp Russian Fe...Daugiau...
This book presents a sustained and systematic analysis of the totalitarian topos across Vladimir Nabokovs life and career. Contributing to the ongoing reappraisal of Nabokovs writing in its engagement with politics and ideology, this st...Daugiau...
This book argues that the political novel as a genre in the South Slavic intercultural context is a contradictory, borderline, polyphonic, subversive product of a modernist project that tells the story of an alienated man (political rebel) in totali...Daugiau...
For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwells masterpieces Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four were not dystopias, but accurate fictional descriptions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and Russian political expert Masha Karp - head of the BBCs...Daugiau...
For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwells masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp Russian Fe...Daugiau...
On the Farm all animals were equal.In the Castle some are more equal than others.For fans of the bestselling Stray Dogs and the Eisner Award winning Beasts of Burden comes an animal fable at once familiar and surprising! You may thi...Daugiau...
A lavish gift edition celebrates the classic tales fiftieth year of publication and features one hundred full-color and halftone illustrations that bring to life the satirical story of the Soviet Union. A satire on totalitarianism in which f...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The Orwell Foundation trustee and award-winning author of Orwell: The Life traces the history and enduring legacy of Orwells landmark dystopian novel, offering insight into the personal experiences that shaped its creation. 25,000 first printing....Daugiau...
On October 3, 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a disabled Jewish New Yorker, and his wife boarded the Achille Lauro to celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary with a Mediterranean cruise. Four days later, four Palestinian fedayeen hijacked the Italian lux...Daugiau...
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet h...Daugiau...
Tracks the impact and timely history of the 1949 classic novel through the authors wartime experiences in Great Britain, the utopian and dystopian literature that preceded it and its ongoing influence on novels, television shows, rock albums and com...Daugiau...
Ma Daode is feeling pleased with himself. He has just been appointed Director of the China Dream Bureau, tasked with overwriting peoples private dreams with President Xis great China Dream of national rejuvenation. He has an impressive office, thr...Daugiau...
Animal Farm offers a multidisciplinary range of perspectives on George Orwells classic satire. The volume of essay includes a consideration of Animal Farms rhetorical use by contemporary British politicians, a biopolitical reading of the text, a con...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jul-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S., ISBN-13: 9780812699791)
Philosophers debate how Orwells nightmare world compares to todays world of political acrimony and discontent. Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a hug...Daugiau...
This book explores the different images of totalitarianism in 20th century literature and the capacity of the theory of Natural Semantic Metalanguage to be adopted in a comparative literary study in the analysis of four totalitarian literary works w...Daugiau...
La historia de un sombrío y aterrador futuro Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros....Daugiau...
Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
SOON TO BE AN HBO FILM STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND MICHAEL SHANNON Sixty years after its originally publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature s...Daugiau...
The Man Booker International–winning author of Broken April and The Siege, Albania’s most renowned novelist, and perennial Nobel Prize contender Ismail Kadare explores three giants of world literature—Aeschylus, Dan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198785682)
Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2016, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469628516)
Christopher Dunns history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469630014)
Christopher Dunns history of authoritarian Brazil exposes the inventive cultural production and intense social transformations that emerged during the rule of an iron-fisted military regime during the sixties and seventies. The Brazilian contracu...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Oct-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674971080)
Few concepts evoke the twentieth centurys record of total war, genocide, repression, and extremism more powerfully than the idea of totalitarianism: the ideological core of narratives of World War II and the Cold War. Yet the totalitarian experience...Daugiau...
This title contextualizes George Orwells final and finest novel within the authors multidisciplinary oeuvre, the complex cultural climate of its composition, and the diverse range of critical responses to the text. In his dystopian masterpiece,...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Sep-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433129834)
Beginning with a preface by Richard Blair, Orwells son, George Orwell Now! brings together thirteen chapters by leading international scholars in four thematic sections. Peter Stansky, in an Afterword, argues that Orwell is now more relevant...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Aug-2015, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781433129827)
Based on a symposium at the U. of Lincoln, this volume contains 13 essays on various aspects of George Orwell. Literature, journalism, and other scholars from Europe, Asia, Australia, and the US discuss Orwell and the history of surveillance studies,...Daugiau...
Serija: Histories of Everyday Life in Totalitarian Regimes
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jun-2015, Hardback, Leidėjas: St James Press, ISBN-13: 9781558629271)
Explores daily life in such totalitarian dictatorships as Nazi Germany, Stalins Soviet Union, China under Mao, and North Korea. An additional 100 interspersed entries further elucidate by exploring works of fiction dedicated to the topic--...Daugiau...
