wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Sport, Literature, Society: Cultural Historical Studies
ISBN: 9780415825689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and sport has been little explored. "Sport, Literature, Society "looks at a wide variety of case studies ranging from Japan to England, from India to Australia and covers sports as diverse as cycling, football, wrestling and boxing. It concentrates on historical perspectives. The contributors are all academics of international reputation and include historians of sport and literary scholars. Literature may shape our perceptions and reactions to... Sport studies and sports history have witnessed a recent substantial increase in publications. However, the relationship between literature and spo... |
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705,63 zł |
Sterne's Whimsical Theatres of Language: Orality, Gesture, Literacy
ISBN: 9780754630760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadié traces how perceptions and representations of language move from a dominance of the spoken work to a dominance of the written word; and this is echoed in the order of the five chapters on conversation, gesture, theatre, fiction, and print. Tadié offers a reading of Sterne's works, arguing that the use of language lies at the centre of Sterne's art; he approaches the historical dimension of the texts in the context of eighteenth-century theories of language. He brings into...
This study addresses the intricate links between oral culture and literate culture in the eighteenth century. Tadié traces how perceptions and repre...
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156,75 zł |
Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850
ISBN: 9781487500320 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century. Editors Daniel O'Quinn and Alexis Tadi? have gathered together an array of European and North American scholars to... In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of signifi... |
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344,98 zł |
Fiction and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Europe, 1500-1800
ISBN: 9781409408659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the significant role that fiction plays in early modern European culture, not only in a variety of its literary genres, but also in its formation of philosophical ideas, political theories, and the law. The volume explores these uses of fiction in a series of interrelated case studies, ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the French Revolution and examining the work of, among others, Montaigne,...
The uses of fiction in early modern Europe are far more varied than is often assumed by those who consider fiction to be synonymous with the novel. Th...
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757,90 zł |