wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Dearest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of the World Maestro
ISBN: 9780190465780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Through personal letters from little known Japanese individuals that had never been studied before, Dearest Lenny interweaves an intimate story of love and relationships with a history of Leonard Bernstein's transformation from an American icon to the world maestro during the second half of the twentieth century.
Through personal letters from little known Japanese individuals that had never been studied before, Dearest Lenny interweaves an intimate story of lov...
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138,93 zł |
Embracing the East: White Women and American Orientalism
ISBN: 9780195145342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and the feminine, submissive East. Yet, this binary model does not account for the important role of white women in the construction of Orientalism. Mari Yoshihara's study examines a wide range of white women who were attracted to Japan and China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and shows how, through their engagement with Asia, these women found new forms of expression, power, and freedom that were often denied to them in other...
As exemplified by Madame Butterfly, East-West relations have often been expressed as the relations between the masculine, dominant West and t...
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180,69 zł |
Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
ISBN: 9781592133338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.
In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significan...
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119,25 zł |
Musicians from a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music
ISBN: 9781592133321 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significance of this trend. This is a book about the about the origins of a social and cultural phenomenon, but it is also about the lives and work of individual musicians devoted to their art.
In the first book to account for the growing prominence of Asians in the world of Western classical music, Mari Yoshihara grapples with the significan...
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306,03 zł |
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
ISBN: 9780231163033 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in...
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own la...
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120,12 zł |
The Fall of Language in the Age of English
ISBN: 9780231163026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in...
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own la...
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120,12 zł |