wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Leopoldo Alas [Clarín]: An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement I
ISBN: 9781855660823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regime, but his reputation has now achieved classic status in Spain. Clearly related to this is the great increase in the number of translations - Julian Barnes called La Regenta 'the foreign classic tardily discovered'. This bibliography picks up where the first one left off in 1984. It is divided into primary material and secondary material. Primary material includes: Anthologies and Selections; Criticism; Novels; Short Story Collections; Plays;...
Novelist-critic Leopoldo Alas's reputation suffered neglect and silent reproval during much of the twentieth century, especially under the Franco regi...
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363,09 zł |
The Magnificent Mistake: How you can earn more from failure than you learn from success
ISBN: 9780993931505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,81 zł |
The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
ISBN: 9780822330004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not easily translated, the Spanish terms "cursi" and "cursiler""i""a" refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In "The Culture of Cursiler""i""a, " Noel Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture.
Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs... Not easily translated, the Spanish terms "cursi" and "cursiler""i""a" refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nin...
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513,51 zł |
The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain
ISBN: 9780822329978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not easily translated, the Spanish terms "cursi" and "cursiler""i""a" refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nineteenth century. Like "kitsch," cursi evokes the idea of bad taste, but it also suggests one who has pretensions of refinement and elegance without possessing them. In "The Culture of Cursiler""i""a, " Noel Valis examines the social meanings of cursi, viewing it as a window into modern Spanish history and particularly into the development of middle-class culture.
Valis finds evidence in literature, cultural objects, and popular customs... Not easily translated, the Spanish terms "cursi" and "cursiler""i""a" refer to a cultural phenomenon widely prevalent in Spanish society since the nin...
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129,62 zł |
Lorca After Life
ISBN: 9780300257861 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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300,30 zł |
Freedom on the Fault Line
ISBN: 9781432776190 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Freedom on the Fault Line explores humanity's mind, soul and heart, its ideals and actions, consequences and repercussions, heights and depths. A rare combination of fierce intelligence, sly wit, gracious compassion and lucid lyricism, these poems are mature works that express the complexity of preserving integrity in a world of struggle and violence. "Searching explorations into both soul and society. Wise and probing...incisive, challenging.... The eyes of the soul will be cleansed and see differently." Ron Dart, author and professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Religious Studies...
Freedom on the Fault Line explores humanity's mind, soul and heart, its ideals and actions, consequences and repercussions, heights and depths. A rare...
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60,49 zł |
Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780190225384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive step dances like the jig, gioube, buck-and-wing, and juba to the work of such contemporary tap luminaries as Gregory Hines, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Savion Glover. In Tap Dancing America, Constance Valis Hill, herself an accomplished jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and performance scholar, begins with a dramatic...
Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, explor...
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311,45 zł |
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers, 20th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780197523971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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198,59 zł |
Sacred Realism: Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative
ISBN: 9780300152340 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noel Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.
In this thoughtful and compelling book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noel Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish nov... |
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516,27 zł |
Representational Monetary Identity
ISBN: 9781105188671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Let us analyze what happens in commercial banking. First, we have a deposit. Then, we have a loan of up to a fraction (of 90%) of this deposit. Finally, the borrower can deposit the borrowed money into another bank account, in the same bank or not. Suddenly, the trillion dollar question emerges: is the borrowed money in these two bank accounts... the same? On the one hand, the answer is yes: all borrowed money came from the original deposit---so it is that same original money. On the other hand, the answer is no: all money deposited into the borrower's account possibly stays in the original...
Let us analyze what happens in commercial banking. First, we have a deposit. Then, we have a loan of up to a fraction (of 90%) of this deposit. Finall...
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44,25 zł |
Juanita La Larga
ISBN: 9780813214351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Juanita La Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years her senior. In addition to their substantial difference in years and class, the lovers must contend with the indignation of his imperious married daughter, the public rebuke of a churchman, and the strictures of society. As the novel opens, readers are introduced to Juanita in the exuberance of youth. We witness her maturation into a young woman and along the way we...
Juanita La Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain an...
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136,23 zł |
Brotherhood in Rhythm: The Jazz Tap Dancing of the Nicholas Brothers
ISBN: 9780815412151 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They performed with Gene Kelly in The Pirate, with Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather, with Dorothy Dandridge (Harold's wife) in Sun Valley Serenade, and with a number of other stars on the stage and on the screen. Author Hill not only guides readers through the brothers' showstopping successes and the repressive times in which their dancing won them universal acclaim, she also offers extensive insight into the history and choreography of tap...
Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 8...
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82,17 zł |