wyszukanych pozycji: 10
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Belle Necropolis: Ghosts of Imperial Vienna
ISBN: 9781433119002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siecle Vienna has been cast as the final bloom of a dying culture. Yet this assessment is itself a historical construct, deriving from the politics of the twentieth century. This volume argues that Habsburg nostalgia is anything but backward looking: instead, images from this glittering Habsburg past become evidence of a culture's sophisticated sense of how and why history is made, in both official and popular spheres. Including the first translation of an original account of...
Since coming to public notice through major museum catalogues and the work of Carl Schorske around 1980, fin de siecle Vienna has been cast as ...
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483,02 |
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Staging Export: Valie Zu Ehren
ISBN: 9781433110610 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. VALIE EXPORT ist eine der bedeutendsten multi-media und performance Kunstlerinnen der Welt. Ihr Werk ist bahnbrechend und wird seit Jahrzehnten international geschatzt. In den 80er und 90er Jahren lehrte sie an Universitaten in den USA und in Deutschland. Im Jahr 2000 erhielt sie den Oskar Kokoschka-Preis, der von der osterreichischen Bundesregierung fur hervorragende Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der bildenden Kunst vergeben wird. Das Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeichen fur Verdienste um die Republik Osterreich erhielt sie im Juni 2010. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage sechsundzwanzig an der...
VALIE EXPORT ist eine der bedeutendsten multi-media und performance Kunstlerinnen der Welt. Ihr Werk ist bahnbrechend und wird seit Jahrzehnten intern...
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513,14 |
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Aneignungen, Entfremdungen: The Austrian Playwright Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872)
ISBN: 9780820463759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of essays by prominent North American and European experts in Austrian literature concerning the Austrian playwright and author Franz Grillparzer, his relationship to various literary traditions, and his reception from the nineteenth century to the present. The chapters originated at a symposium held in February of 2003 at the University of Alberta sponsored by the University of Alberta s Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies."
This book is a collection of essays by prominent North American and European experts in Austrian literature concerning the Austrian playwright and aut...
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333,74 |
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Women in the Shadows: Mileva Einstein-Maric, Margarete Jeanne Trakl, Lise Meitner, Milena Jesenská, and Margarete Schuette-Lihotzk
ISBN: 9780820488561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Women in the Shadows discusses the biographies of five brilliant and talented women born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Mileva Einstein-Maric, Margarete Jeanne Trakl, Lise Meitner, Milena Jesenska, and Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky. Charles S. Chiu creates a narrative against forgetting, as a small step out of darkness by writing about these women's accomplishments, which were overshadowed by those of the famous men in their lives. Edith Borchardt's translation brings this narrative to a wider audience.
Women in the Shadows will interest scientists and scholars in the... Women in the Shadows discusses the biographies of five brilliant and talented women born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Mileva Einstein-Maric,...
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470,37 |
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Passages: Crossings - Borders - Openings: In Conversation with Austrian Writers: The Austrian-American Podium Dialog
ISBN: 9781433185229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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536,41 |
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Evelyn Schlag: Readings of Text
ISBN: 9780820474267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the works of the prolific Austrian poet and prose artist Evelyn Schlag. European and American scholars provide an overview of Schlag s themes as well as detailed analyses of individual works. The essayists present a variety of approaches, from feminist readings to analyses of Schlag s eroticized language and poetic networking, making the book a rich resource for students and scholars alike. Additional resources include a new interview with Evelyn Schlag and a comprehensive bibliography."
This is the first scholarly volume devoted to the works of the prolific Austrian poet and prose artist Evelyn Schlag. European and American scholars p...
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343,86 |
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From Fin-De-Siècle to Theresienstadt: The Works and Life of the Writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein
ISBN: 9780820481807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This critical anthology presents original scholarship and materials about the prominent dramatist and concentration camp memoir writer Elsa Porges-Bernstein (1866-1949). The individual scholarly contributions provide new insights into the issue of multiple identity and allegiance in the first half of the twentieth century. Bernstein was a Germanophile and, according to Nazi ideology, a Jew; she also assumed the traditional roles of mother and housewife; finally, she was a feminist and a socialite related to the Wagner family. The complexity and conflictedness of Elsa Porges-Bernstein appeals...
This critical anthology presents original scholarship and materials about the prominent dramatist and concentration camp memoir writer Elsa Porges-Ber...
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513,14 |
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Contested Passions; Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781433114236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The thirty articles featured in Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are based on papers given at the MALCA conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in the Spring of 2007. They cover literary works by several Austrian authors of the nineteenth and twentieth century such as Schnitzler, Musil, Hofmannsthal, Broch, Kraus, Drach, Jelinek and also developments in the graphic arts, including works by Klimt and VALIE EXPORT; architecture for example, Loos; film; and the popular media."
The thirty articles featured in Contested Passions: Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in Modern Austrian Literature and Culture are based on pap...
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577,14 |
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Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation Without a State: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Poland
ISBN: 9780820478661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation without a State applies Benedict Anderson s theory about the coherence of imagined communities by tracing how Galicia, the heart of Polish culture in the nineteenth-century which would never be an independent nation-state emerged as a historical and cultural touchstone with present-day significance for the people of Europe. After the Three Partitions and Poland s complete disappearance from Europe s political map, images of Poland arose to replace the lost kingdom with a national identity grounded in culture and tradition rather than in...
Literary and Cultural Images of a Nation without a State applies Benedict Anderson s theory about the coherence of imagined communities by trac...
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cena:
455,95 |
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The Kaiser's Mosques: Islamic Architecture and Orientalizing Style in Habsburg Bosnia, 1878–1918
ISBN: 9783631909850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book highlights an understudied experiment at the intersection of 19th-century European and Islamic architectural histories. It draws attention to a body of buildings designed by architects trained in Central Europe for use by Muslims in Habsburg-ruled Bosnia-Herzegovina (1878-1918). They include mosques, madrasas, and other buildings corresponding to a traditional Islamic formal and functional typology. The composition and decoration, however, is the product of 19th-century European Historicist conduct. It became a prominent style for town halls and private residences; on occasion, it...
This book highlights an understudied experiment at the intersection of 19th-century European and Islamic architectural histories. It draws attention t...
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283,55 |