The Fate of Ideas: Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals
ISBN: 9780231173810 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of contemporary society.
Organizing his chapters around specific ideas, Boyers anatomizes the process by which they fall in and out of fashion and often confuse those who most ardently embrace them.... As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture...
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119,66 zł |
Manhattanite (Able Muse Book Award for Poetry)
ISBN: 9781927409923 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,37 zł |
A Year of Mourning: Poems 271-322 of Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
ISBN: 9781927409954 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,03 zł |
African Theatre 16: Six Plays from East & West Africa
ISBN: 9781847011725 / Angielski / Twarda / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume makes available some of the most influential, imaginative and exciting plays to come out of East and West Africa from the 1970s to the present day. Deliberately excluding playscripts by the regions' two best known playwrights, Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, whose work was profiled in African Theatre 13 the editors have selected plays, some well-known and some less widely available, that represent the diversity and richness of these two very different African regions. The playscripts include a new translation from Amharic, as well as the English version of a play originally...
This volume makes available some of the most influential, imaginative and exciting plays to come out of East and West Africa from the 1970s to the pre...
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490,88 zł |
Recognition in the Arabic Narrative Tradition: Discovery, Deliverance and Delusion
ISBN: 9781474432177 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers new vistas for reading, understanding and interpreting Arabic literature as well as the culture in which it was produced.
Offers new vistas for reading, understanding and interpreting Arabic literature as well as the culture in which it was produced.
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149,79 zł |
Wounds of the Old Trees: Iraqi Poems
ISBN: 9781935514183 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,98 zł |
African Heartbeat: Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Dynamics
ISBN: 9780761870067 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book critically examines classic works of literature and film to suggest ways in which study of fictional characters, cultural themes, and vivid imagery helps us to understand problems that seriously concern Americans, including uniformed officers and public officials, as well as the general populace in today's turbulent times.
This book critically examines classic works of literature and film to suggest ways in which study of fictional characters, cultural themes, and vivid ...
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462,74 zł |
Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr
ISBN: 9780810137356 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr, translated by Carl W. Ernst, is a definitive collection of poems by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, a famed early Sufi poet who influenced Rumi. The poems are known both for their literary artistry and their spirituality.
Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr, translated by Carl W. Ernst, is a definitive collection of poems by Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj, a famed early Sufi po...
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92,26 zł |
What ʿĪsā Ibn Hishām Told Us: Or, a Period of Time
ISBN: 9781479840915 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,28 zł |
Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures: Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater
ISBN: 9781942876182 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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224,93 zł |
Intellectual Imagination: Knowledge and Aesthetics in North Atlantic and African Philosophy
ISBN: 9780268103293 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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232,52 zł |
The Study of Al-Andalus: The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe
ISBN: 9780674984462 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Study of al-Andalus explores the many ways in which James T. Monroe's scholarship has inspired further study in topics including Hispano-Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance literatures, Persian epic poetry, the impact of Andalusi literature in Egypt and the Arab East, and the lasting legacy of the expulsion of Spain's last Muslims.
The Study of al-Andalus explores the many ways in which James T. Monroe's scholarship has inspired further study in topics including Hispano-Arabic, H...
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113,95 zł |
Globalization, Oral Performance, and African Traditional Poetry
ISBN: 9783319750781 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is forced to take by the changes of the twenty-first century electronic age.
This book discusses globalization trends and influences on traditional African oral literary performance and the direction that Ilorin oral art is for...
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191,85 zł |
Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013
ISBN: 9780300226171 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa
The first collection of nonfiction critical writings by one of the leading literary figures of post-apartheid South Africa
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149,57 zł |
Arabian Romantic: Poems on Bedouin Life and Love
ISBN: 9781479837663 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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144,63 zł |
Diwan 'Antarah Ibn Shaddad: A Literary-Historical Study
ISBN: 9781479861880 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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320,36 zł |
Songs of Mihyar the Damascene
ISBN: 9780811227650 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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81,53 zł |
Neo-Imperialism in Children's Literature about Africa: A Study of Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9780415809092 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and Donnarae MacCann once again come together to expose the neo-imperialist overtones of contemporary children's fiction about Africa. Examining the portrayal of African social customs, religious philosophies, and political structures in fiction for young people, Maddy and MacCann reveal the Western biases that often infuse stories by well-known Western authors. In the book's introductory section, Maddy and MacCann offer historical... In the spirit of their last collaboration, Apartheid and Racism in South African Children's Literature, 1985-1995, Yulisa Amadu Maddy and ... |
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237,64 zł |
I Threw a Star in a Wine Glass
ISBN: 9780797493353 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,87 zł |
Tea Ceremonies for Winter
ISBN: 9781887276894 / Angielski / Miękka / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,98 zł |