wyszukanych pozycji: 16
For the Sake of Sanity: Doing Things with Humour in Irish Performance
ISBN: 9781788748117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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163,97 zł |
The Power of Laughter : Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre
ISBN: 9781904505051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Essays on comedy in contemporary Irish theatre
Essays on comedy in contemporary Irish theatre
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152,82 zł |
The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy
ISBN: 9780521540261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A 'how to' guide on reading comic texts, covering comedy's origins and characteristics with reference to literature, film and television.
A 'how to' guide on reading comic texts, covering comedy's origins and characteristics with reference to literature, film and television.
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155,52 zł |
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
ISBN: 9780691205144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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96,69 zł |
Theatre and Laughter
ISBN: 9781137356086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two. Exploring the many uses and effects of laughter in theatre, Eric Weitz considers laughter as a tool of political resonance, as social commentary, and as one of the oldest rhetorical devices. This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between th... |
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41,44 zł |
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition
ISBN: 9780691183053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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112,00 zł |
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance
ISBN: 9781137585875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 866 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance.
This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contempor...
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1461,69 zł |
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
ISBN: 9780691145440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, Weitz describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish their own states that grant human rights to some people. At the same time, they have excluded others through forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, or even genocide.
Through vivid histories drawn from virtually every continent, Weitz describes how, since the 18th century, nationalists have struggled to establish th...
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163,80 zł |
A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation - Updated Edition
ISBN: 9780691165875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented? Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial... Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of ge... |
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136,50 zł |
Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State
ISBN: 9780691026824 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Eric Weitz presents a social and political history of German communism from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the German Democratic Republic in 1990. In the first book in English or in German to explore this entire period, Weitz describes the emergence of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) against the background of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and clearly explains how the legacy of these periods shaped the character of the GDR to the very end of its existence. In Weimar Germany, social democrats and Germany's old elites tried frantically to... Eric Weitz presents a social and political history of German communism from its beginnings at the end of the nineteenth century to the collapse of ... |
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300,30 zł |
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781350000728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, Boccaccio, Juan Ruiz, and Hrothswitha of Gandersheim, as well as lesser-known works and genres, such as songs of insult, nonsense-texts, satirical church paintings, topical jokes, and obscene pilgrim badges....
Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice...
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414,96 zł |
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781350000742 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous eras; it is also noted for new forms and preoccupations engendered by the cultural, philosophical, and political concerns of the time, including democratizing revolutions, increasing secularization,...
This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European...
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414,96 zł |
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire
ISBN: 9781350000759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark the decades between 1800 and 1920-shifting borders, socioeconomic upheaval, scientific and technological innovation, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, unprecedented overseas expansion by European and American imperial powers-it is no wonder that people in the Age of Empire...
Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume p...
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414,96 zł |
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9781350000766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a range of forms and examples from 1920 to the present day, including plays, film, television comedy, live comedy, and comedy on social media. It argues that the period covered was marked by an explosion of comic forms and a flowering of comic creativity across a range of media. From the communal watching of silent films at the start of the...
Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volum...
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414,96 zł |
A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity
ISBN: 9781350000711 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century BCE. It explores the range of comedies during this period, which were fictional dramas that engaged with the political and social concerns of ancient society, and also at times with mythology and...
Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic perfor...
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414,96 zł |
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age
ISBN: 9781350000735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional comedian, extended commentaries on the nature of comedy and laughter, and the development of printed jestbooks. It was the prime site from which to satirize a rapidly-changing world and explore the formation of new social relations around questions of...
Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in...
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414,96 zł |