wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780815331230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of... The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of... |
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681,40 zł |
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Black Orpheus: Music in African American Fiction from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9781138001770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature. The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of... The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of... |
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272,51 zł |
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The War Works Hard
ISBN: 9780811216210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes in The War Works Hard, a revolutionary work by an exiled Iraqi poether first to appear in English. Amidst the ongoing atrocities in Iraq, here is an important new voice that rescues the human spirit from the ruins, unmasking the official glorification of war with telegraphic lexical austerity. Embracing literary traditions from ancient Mesopotamian mythology to Biblical and Qur'anic parables to Western modernism, Mikhail's poetic vision...
Revolutionary poetry by an exiled Iraqi woman. Winner of a 2004 PEN Translation Fund Award. "Yesterday I lost a country," Dunya Mikhail writes ...
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cena:
69,02 zł |