wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Velký sen dvou malých národů
ISBN: 9788075297747 / Czeski / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Americký novinář a politolog Kevin J. McNamara se ve své publikaci zabývá okolnostmi, které předcházely vzniku Československa. Zaměřuje se zejména na dva klíčové, spolu propojené faktory, jimiž jsou diplomatické úsilí zahraničního odboje pod vedením T. G. Masaryka a dramatická epopej česko-slovenských legií v Rusku. Autor sleduje anabázi legionářů z Ukrajiny přes Sibiř až do Vladivostoku, vyzdvihuje jejich hrdinství, vojenské umění a vysvětluje čtenáři jejich přínos pro vznik nového státu. Poutavě napsaná kniha s bohatým poznámkovým...
Americký novinář a politolog Kevin J. McNamara se ve své publikaci zabývá okolnostmi, které předcházely vzniku Československa. Zaměřuje s...
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96,16 zł |
Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities
ISBN: 9780804726450 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography--discourses he treats as form-producing arts in their own right--shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that focus on the structure of urban space and institutions, and those that describe cities as fluid constellations of social practices. The ideal...
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being...
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371,31 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
ISBN: 9781107609150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 517 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to...
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around...
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208,29 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780521514705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the...
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endles...
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446,45 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
ISBN: 9781107028036 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to...
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around...
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530,78 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780521735544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endless summer, but also the apocalyptic undertow of riots, environmental depredation, and natural disaster. This Companion traces the evolution of Los Angeles as the most public staging of the American Dream - and American nightmares. The expert contributors make exciting, innovative connections among the authors and texts inspired by the city, covering the early Spanish settlers, African American writers, the British and German expatriates of the...
Los Angeles has a tantalizing hold on the American imagination. Its self-magnifying myths encompass Hollywood glamour, Arcadian landscapes, and endles...
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148,76 zł |
The City in American Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781108841962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. Engaging the history of urban promise and struggle as represented in literature, film, and visual arts, and drawing on work in the social sciences, The City in American Literature and Culture examines the large and local forces that shape urban space and city life and the street-level activity that remakes culture and identities as it contests injustice and separation. The first two sections examine a range of city spaces and...
The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in...
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643,11 zł |