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The Book of Rio: A City in Short Fiction
ISBN: 9781905583683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. This diverse, literary patchwork of Rio de Janeiro contains 10 short stories set in varied quarters of the city drawing on its inhabitants' experiences of recent historical and cultural changes. From Copacabana's thriving LGBT scene in the 1960s where the military dictatorship simultaneously terrorizes and represses politically-minded citizens, to the exhausted labourers constructing the Rio-Niteroi bridge - 'the pride of Brazil' - at gunpoint in 1974, to contemporary life in the neighbourhood of Leblon, where a call girl trying to get to a party reluctantly accepts a very strange job for the...
This diverse, literary patchwork of Rio de Janeiro contains 10 short stories set in varied quarters of the city drawing on its inhabitants' experience...
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Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780813527949 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Intellectually broad and carefully grounded in fundamental issues affecting the time, role, and place of the academy in society, this collection explores the ways in which art and tradition are either maintained or rearticulated late in the Victorian Era. Art and the Academy forges a distinctive new way to look at the broad range of academic creativity against a complex network of changing social patterns." -Gabriel P. Weisberg, department of art history, University of Minnesota Throughout the nineteenth century, academies functioned as the main venues for the teaching,... "Intellectually broad and carefully grounded in fundamental issues affecting the time, role, and place of the academy in society, this co... |
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285,83 zł |