wyszukanych pozycji: 25
Sab: By Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda
ISBN: 9780719057069 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist novel published during the century in Spain or its colonies. This unique text raises important issues concerning power, race, gender and class in colonial societies, colonial and post-colonial subjectivity and identities, feminist appropriations of the abolitionist agenda, human rights discourse, and literary and philosophical issues associated with enlightenment thought. This new annotated critical edition is the first to provide the original...
This tale of a slave's unrequited love for the woman who owns him is set in nineteenth-century colonial Cuba and was the only feminist-abolitionist no...
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60,12 zł |
Spanish Contemporary Poetry PB: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780719090950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This anthology is a bold demonstration of the strength of contemporary Spanish culture. It presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the 1970s to the present day, and is the first work to make poetry of this period available to students of Hispanic literature in the Anglophone world. It includes an introductory study in English of the most relevant poetic trends and groups, and provides guided close readings of each poem, as well as lists of key rhetorical terms, a selected vocabulary and temas de debate y discusion.
The poems by twenty-two different authors are divided into... This anthology is a bold demonstration of the strength of contemporary Spanish culture. It presents a selection of Spanish peninsular poetry from the ...
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109,36 zł |
Biografía de Un Cimarrón: By Miguel Barnet and Esteban Montejo
ISBN: 9780719080913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This 'Biography of a runaway slave' is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo, a former slave, runaway, and soldier in the Cuban wars of independence. The text is the collaboration between ethnographer Miguel Barnet and Montejo, the result of three years of tape-recorded interviews, transcribed, edited and annotated by Barnet. Montejo provides a first-hand account of slavery in nineteenth-century Cuba - the language, religion, music, and customs - and describes life in the sugar plantations and...
This 'Biography of a runaway slave' is arguably the best-known book to have been written and published in revolutionary Cuba, being the testimonial na...
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71,06 zł |
Huerto Cerrado
ISBN: 9780719064135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first critical edition that makes his work available to students of Hispanic literatures in the English-speaking world. Combining humour and informal language to explore adolescence in middle-class Peru, this edition provides ready points of engagement for young (and not-so-young) adults. The stories and main themes are explained and analysed through a critical introduction, comprehensive notes and vocabulary prepared by one of the leading international...
Alfredo Bryce Echenique is one of the most widely-read and most widely translated Latin American authors of recent decades, yet this is the first crit...
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82,01 zł |
The Companion to Hispanic Studies
ISBN: 9780340762981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What is "Hispanic Studies"? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. "Hispanic Studies" is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast "Hispanic" world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West. This essential book provides all the necessary introductory information on the subject and will be especially useful for students who have...
What is "Hispanic Studies"? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for f...
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192,23 zł |
South American Independence: Gender, Politics, Text
ISBN: 9781846316845 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American Independence, Catherine Davies, Claire Brewster and Hilary Owen investigate the neglected role of gender in that discussion. Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, the book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. Through studies of...
The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about politi...
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191,42 zł |
Ramon J. Sender's 'Cronica del Alba'
ISBN: 9780719056741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Cronica del alba, is the first in an autobiographical series of nine novels by one of the most famous twentieth- century Spanish novelists, Ramon Sender. The novel recounts the very funny adventures of a rebellious ten-year-old and has an immediate appeal to readers of all ages. However, the narrative frame of the Spanish Civil War points to more depth and the major events of twentieth century Spanish history. The critical introduction places the author and the novel in the context of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco regime, the literature of exile and censorship and shows how they...
Cronica del alba, is the first in an autobiographical series of nine novels by one of the most famous twentieth- century Spanish novelists, Ramon Send...
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164,12 zł |
El Laberinto de la Soledad by Octavio Paz: The Hollywood 'british' Film 1939-45
ISBN: 9780719048746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Pazs famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This fully annotated edition includes the complete text in Spanish (with the author's final revisions), and notes and additional material in English. The editor's introduction contextualizes the essay and discusses central features: autobiographical and textual origins, intellectual sources, reception and canonization, generic ambiguity, structure, and governing symbols. The intellectual sources identified range from Marx, Nietzsche and Freud to the...
If one had to identify one central, defining text from modern Mexican culture, it would be Octavio Pazs famous essay, El laberinto de la soledad. This...
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60,12 zł |
Carmen de Burgos: Three Novellas: Confidencias, La Mujer Fría and Puñal de Claveles
ISBN: 9780719097119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a scholarly edition of three stories by Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), also known by her pen-name of 'Colombine'. De Burgos was an influential journalist, socio-political activist and key literary figure in the cultural ferment of pre-war Madrid and is currently being rediscovered, having languished in relative oblivion during the Franco years. The stories are individually interesting and entertaining but together provide a varied collection, with some of the issues closest to Colombine's heart tackled from different perspectives. This adds up to a coherent critique of marriage...
This is a scholarly edition of three stories by Carmen de Burgos (1867-1932), also known by her pen-name of 'Colombine'. De Burgos was an influential ...
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82,01 zł |
Spanish Women's Writing 1849-1996
ISBN: 9780485910063 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Traces a long tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until today. The book studies the major authors within the changing political, cultural and economic context of women's lives over the past 150 years. Particular attention is paid to women's versions of female subjectivity in relation to the Spanish nation-state, government politics, and the women's liberation movement.
Traces a long tradition of Spanish women's writing from the end of the Romantic period until today. The book studies the major authors within the chan...
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1013,41 zł |
Contemporary Feminist Fiction in Spain: The Work of Montserrat Roig and Rosa Montero
ISBN: 9781859730867 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this timely new study, Catherine Davies provides a critical analysis of post-Franco Spain's most successful women novelists. Delving first into the development of feminism and women's writing and its critical reception in Spain since 1970, the author then focuses on two of the most popular and influential feminist novelists: Barcelona's Montserrat Roig (1946-1991) and Madrid's Rosa Montero (b. 1951). These writers' works share woman-centered themes such as family relationships, the search for self-fulfillment in a restrictive society, and the hope for the construction of a new world... In this timely new study, Catherine Davies provides a critical analysis of post-Franco Spain's most successful women novelists. Delving first into ... |
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675,61 zł |
Tristana: By Benito Pérez Galdós
ISBN: 9780719099212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.Galdos', following the ideas of the Free Teaching Institution, intervened in the arena of the debate around the emancipation of women and their incorporation into the public sphere. Tristana, a young woman subjected to the rule of the tyrannical Don Lope, idealistically tries to find her purpose on life but she ends trapped by the rules of a world dominated by men who only see her as the object of their desire.
Written in an experimental manner that defies the boundaries... Tristana is a novel where love, hate and power converge into a triangle of domination and frustration.Galdos', following the ideas of the Fre...
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82,01 zł |
Schiffe
ISBN: 9783831047307 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2023 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Schiff ahoi! Was schwimmt denn da? Schiff ahoi! |
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67,81 zł |
Emperor of the Ice: How a Changing Climate Affects a Penguin Colony
ISBN: 9781536228397 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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82,75 zł |
Whitman's Queer Children: America's Homosexual Epics
ISBN: 9781441192622 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit concern with ideas of American nationhood, while others emulate the formal ambitions and encyclopaedic scope of the epic poem. The study undertakes extensive close readings of Hart Cranes The Bridge (1930), Allen Ginsbergs Howl (1956) and The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-71 (1972), James Merrills The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), and John Ashberys Flow Chart (1991). Although not primarily an account of a Whitmanian...
Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an expl...
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727,58 zł |
Whitman's Queer Children: America's Homosexual Epics
ISBN: 9781628923186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an explicit concern with ideas of American nationhood, while others emulate the formal ambitions and encyclopaedic scope of the epic poem. The study undertakes extensive close readings of Hart Crane's The Bridge (1930), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (1956) and The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-71 (1972), James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), and John Ashbery's Flow Chart (1991). Although not...
Davies examines the work of four of the most important twentieth-century poets who have explored the epic tradition. Some of the poems display an expl...
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197,43 zł |
Transatlantic Speculations: Globalization and the Panics of 1873
ISBN: 9780231185561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which the crises of 1873 challenged notions of economic and moral order. She maps the dual "transatlantic speculations": the financial speculation that led to these panics as well as the interpretative speculations that sprouted in their wake.
Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on nineteenth-century globalization by exploring the ways in which the crises of 1873 challenged notions of ...
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339,17 zł |
Transnational Spanish Studies
ISBN: 9781789621358 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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629,11 zł |
Hers Ancient and Modern: Women's Writing in Spain and Brazil
ISBN: 9781912399086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,65 zł |
Transnational Spanish Studies
ISBN: 9781789621365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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180,25 zł |