Paul Laraque: éclaireur de l'aube nouvelle"
ISBN: 9780974582153 / Francuski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major book in Haitian literature, edited by Prof. Franck Laraque. A series of homages, reminiscences, poems and essays by writers who have known Paul Laraque. The list includes: Josaphat-Robert Large, Frantz-Antoine Leconte, Hughes St-Fort, Max Manigat, Frantz Latour, Jean Mtellus, Jean Prophte, Ren Dpestre, Robert Garoute, Grard Ptrus, Claude Pierre, Elie Leblanc, Jr., Gary Klang, Karn Bogat, Georges Jean Charles, Deniz Lauture, Clotaire Saint-Natus, Lochard Nol, Serge Franois, Berthony Dupont, Papados, Jean Andr Constant, Danielle Laraque Arena, Jack Hirschman, Michele Laraque, Marc...
A major book in Haitian literature, edited by Prof. Franck Laraque. A series of homages, reminiscences, poems and essays by writers who have known Pau...
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93,15 zł |
The Sonnets
ISBN: 9780143106012 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--in English and Spanish This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, paying homage to many of his literary and philosophical paragons--Cervantes, Milton, Whitman, Emerson, Joyce, Spinoza--while at the same time...The complete sonnets of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century--in English and Spanish This landmark collection brings toge... |
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83,37 zł |
Poems of the Night: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text
ISBN: 9780143106005 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dual-language volume of poems on darkness and light--many appearing in English for the first time--by one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century
Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. Poems of the Night is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly to the blindness that overtook Borges late in life--and yet the poems here are drawn from the full span of... A dual-language volume of poems on darkness and light--many appearing in English for the first time--by one of the greatest writers of the twentiet...
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79,20 zł |
Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780199575244 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical tradition to the educational context, specifically the way in which Classics was taught in the colonial school curriculum. Discussions of Caribbean literature tend to assume an antagonistic relationship between Classics, which is treated as a legacy of empire, and Caribbean literature. While...
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwoo...
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662,49 zł |
On Argentina
ISBN: 9780143105732 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer A literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer |
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75,03 zł |
On Writing
ISBN: 9780143105725 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners A master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners |
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66,70 zł |
On Mysticism
ISBN: 9780143105695 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An unprecedented collection of the visionary Argentine writer's meditations on the mystical realm An unprecedented collection of the visionary Argentine writer's meditations on the mystical realm |
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66,70 zł |
The Devil in the Details: Cuban Antislavery Narrative in the Postmodern Age
ISBN: 9789766402310 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,31 zł |
The Mythology of Mexico and Central America
ISBN: 9780195146219 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times--and demonstrates that they are very much alive today. The book provides translations of twenty "basic myths," showing how these have influenced the artistic, literary, and political life of modern Mexico and Central America. Originally published in 1990, the text has been updated to reflect recent advances in Mesoamerican studies. In addition, a new Afterword describes how these native mythologies--since the late 1980s--have begun incorporating issues of international significance, including...
In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times--and demonstrates that they are very much alive to...
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210,62 zł |
Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998
ISBN: 9780198112150 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of Dominica. His account of his stay among the Caribs started a trickle of visitors which grew to a steady stream and is now in the full flood of mass tourism. Remnants of Conquest offers an account and analysis of these visitors' writings as they struggle to understand the way of life of a twentieth-century indigenous community, inhabitants of a postcolonial world.
In 1877 a US ornithologist stumbled across a small indigenous Caribbean population, the Caribs, still living in a remote part of the small island of D...
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901,10 zł |
Viaje de Recreo
ISBN: 9781934768358 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1908, Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru 1852-Argentina 1909), a lifelong journalist, feminist and writer, traveled to Europe: Viaje de recreo (Pleasure trip) is her account of her vivid impressions. She was particularly interested in the education of women and in women's career opportunities, but she was also fascinated by the cultural differences between the West European countries. Her analysis and descriptions will fascinate anyone interested in the genre of travel accounts, in museum studies, in feminist history, or, of course, in Matto's life and writings. In Viaje de recreo, Matto...
In 1908, Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru 1852-Argentina 1909), a lifelong journalist, feminist and writer, traveled to Europe: Viaje de recreo (Pleasur...
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Dialogues & Conversations de Facebook: Expériences d'un Réseau Social
ISBN: 9781456590086 / Francuski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. DIALOGUES & CONVERSATIONS DE FACEBOOK est une compilation de plusieurs sujets discutes sur mon mur de Facebook. D'habitude, l'Haitien participe a une conversation pour debattre un sujet. Dans Dialogues et Conversations de Facebook, la direction est plutot baroque; simplement calques sur le vif. Chacun y injecte son sel, son concept a defendre et son argumentation a polir. La primeur de ces deliberations reste a l'eloquence spontanee, et surprend parfois quelques-uns des interlocuteurs qui restent stupefaits ou desappointes. Les sujets traitent de l'actualite, de la philosophie, de l'histoire...
DIALOGUES & CONVERSATIONS DE FACEBOOK est une compilation de plusieurs sujets discutes sur mon mur de Facebook. D'habitude, l'Haitien participe a une ...
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126,93 zł |
The Mythology of Mexico and Central America
ISBN: 9780195146202 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times--and demonstrates that they are very much alive today. The book provides translations of twenty "basic myths," showing how these have influenced the artistic, literary, and political life of modern Mexico and Central America. Originally published in 1990, the text has been updated to reflect recent advances in Mesoamerican studies. In addition, a new Afterword describes how these native mythologies--since the late 1980s--have begun incorporating issues of international significance, including...
In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times--and demonstrates that they are very much alive to...
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268,78 zł |
Caribbean Reasonings: The George Lamming Reader - The Aesthetics of Decolonisation
ISBN: 9789766375157 / Angielski / Miękka / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming's writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and literary life. Credited as a part of that group of Caribbean activists who awoke the Caribbean to its identity and more specifically to its cultural identity, his works have focused on finding new political and social identity. Indeed, Lamming was a seminal figure in the Caribbean 20th century...
George Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years a...
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166,32 zł |
Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
ISBN: 9780253001894 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often treated like night itself--both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized--Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, Maria DeGuzman explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality,... Often treated like night itself--both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized--Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In he... |
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120,84 zł |
La Granja Global: el lugar donde los animales viven en paz y alegría
ISBN: 9781466466524 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Todas las culturas tienen una forma particular de representar los sonidos utilizando su idioma para formar las onomatopeyas. En la Granja Global encontraras gentilicios. El gentilicio denota el origen de las personas, animales o de las cosas.
Todas las culturas tienen una forma particular de representar los sonidos utilizando su idioma para formar las onomatopeyas. En la Granja Global encon...
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43,72 zł |
People and Issues in Latin American History Vol II: From Independence to the Present
ISBN: 9781558763906 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the third edition the editor has added a section on Hugo Chavez to extend the historical perspective into the twenty-first century. Special emphasis is given to social history and the analysis of the spectrum of revolutionary change since Bolivar.The sections of the book include: Simon Bolivar - The Liberator; The Age of Caudillos - Juan Manuel de Rosas; Nineteenth-Century Economic Affairs: Did Railroads Hold the Key to Progress?; African Slavery in Brazil; Porfirio Diaz: Dictator of Mexico; Conflicting Latin and Yankee Attitudes at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Eva Peron - Argentine...
For the third edition the editor has added a section on Hugo Chavez to extend the historical perspective into the twenty-first century. Special emphas...
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135,16 zł |
Poesía Completa / Complete Poetry Borges
ISBN: 9780307743503 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La obra poetica completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen
Ademas de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poesia es el alma de su obra. Indisociable de sus cuentos y ensayos, estos poemas son parte indispensable del universo borgiano y constituyen una indagacion paralela a los asuntos que siempre le apasionaron: los libros, la memoria, los laberintos, los espejos, el amor o la eternidad. De los poemas que integran esta fantastica coleccion cabe destacar El mar, Arte poetica, El laberinto, Limites y su... La obra poetica completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen
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91,71 zł |
The Araucaniad: A Version in English Poetry of Alonso de Ercilla y Zuniga's La Araucana
ISBN: 9780826518835 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry.
Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry.
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239,44 zł |
Recuerdos de un Hacendado
ISBN: 9788499536378 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,68 zł |