My Kill Adore Him
ISBN: 9780268035181 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andres Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martinez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martinez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys' bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroner's Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political...
My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andres Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martinez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martinez Pom...
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80,55 zł |
The Dramatic World of Valle-Inclan
ISBN: 9781855660915 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daring, innovative, controversial, often satirical, a dramatist ahead of his time, Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936) was one of Spain's 'Generation of 1898', and an influence on such later movements as the Theatre of Cruelty and the Theatre of the Absurd. Lima's study first examines Valle-Inclan's day-to-day involvement with the theatre as actor, director-dramaturg and playwright. This is followed by an account of Valle-Inclan's full-length and one-act plays, which demonstrate the foibles and follies of human behaviour, and are discussed here under a variety of thematic headings. There...
Daring, innovative, controversial, often satirical, a dramatist ahead of his time, Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936) was one of Spain's 'Generation o...
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428,18 zł |
The Cancionero de la Sablonara: A Critical Edition [English Edition]
ISBN: 9781855660472 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The so-called Cancionero de la Sablonara is a highly selective manuscript collection of seventy-five Spanish polyphonic art-songs, composed primarily at the Spanish Court during the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Named after its scribe and compiler, Claudio de Sablonara (the chief copyist of the Spanish Royal Chapel), it constitutes one of the relatively few extant relics of the court's prodigious musical repertoire. The majority of the songs, comprising genuine Spanish genres and set for two, three and four voices, were written by leading composers of the time. The high quality of...
The so-called Cancionero de la Sablonara is a highly selective manuscript collection of seventy-five Spanish polyphonic art-songs, composed primarily ...
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1486,02 zł |
The Qur'an in Sixteenth Century Spain: Six Morisco Versions of Sura 79
ISBN: 9780729301213 / Angielski / Twarda / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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352,62 zł |
Casiodoro de Reina: Spanish Reformer of the Sixteenth Century
ISBN: 9780729300100 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Companion to Golden Age Theatre
ISBN: 9781855662094 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spain's artistic Golden Age produced Cervantes's great novel, Don Quijote, the sublime poetry of Quevedo and Gongora, and nurtured the prodigious talent of Velazquez, and yet it was the theatre that captured the imagination of its people. Men and women of all social classes flocked to the new playhouses to see and hear the latest offerings of their favourite dramatists, and to be seen and heard. As well as dealing with the lives and major works of the most significant playwrights of the period - Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Miguel de Cervantes, Calderon de la Barca - the Companion focusses...
Spain's artistic Golden Age produced Cervantes's great novel, Don Quijote, the sublime poetry of Quevedo and Gongora, and nurtured the prodigious tale...
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100,70 zł |
A Companion to Latin American Film
ISBN: 9781855662100 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting work in contemporary film now originates there. This Companion traces its development from the mid 1890s, with particular attention to the early period when it was dominated by foreign film makers (or foreign models such as Hollywood), through the 1960s when as a genre it found its feet - the New Latin American Cinema movement - and beyond. Detailed analysis of the best twenty-five films of Latin America follows: cast and crew, awards, plots, themes and techniques. The 'Guide to Further...
Latin American cinema has seen major developments in the past half-century, and some of the most exciting work in contemporary film now originates the...
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100,70 zł |
A Companion to Mexican Studies
ISBN: 9781855662148 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Companion volume traces the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. Dealing in turn with the cultures of Mesoamerica, the colonial period, the onset of independence and the modern era, the author explores Aztec arts, the role of the performing arts in the process of evangelisation, manifestations of cultural dependence, of the search for national identity, and the struggle for modernity, drawing examples from such diverse activities as architecture, painting, music, dance, literature, film and media. There is also a brief...
This Companion volume traces the evolution of the major creative aspects of Mexican culture from pre-Columbian times to the present. Dealing in turn w...
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100,70 zł |
Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary
ISBN: 9789042030329 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary," the authors assess British Romanticism's creative and polemical engagements with the Peninsular War, the bid of Spanish American colonies to establish independence with British support, and the impact of travel narratives about Spain and the Americas. The essays analyze questions of language and translation in Anglo-Hispanic literary genealogies, the representation of war and nationalism in poetry, drama, and prose, and the confluence of empire, gender, and authorship in travel narratives. Scholars and students of Romanticism will find...
In "Romanticism and the Anglo-Hispanic Imaginary," the authors assess British Romanticism's creative and polemical engagements with the Peninsular War...
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495,80 zł |
Saberes y sabores en Mexico y el Caribe
ISBN: 9789042030442 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saberes y sabores en Mexico y el Caribe es fruto del proyecto de investigacion "Los contextos culinarios en la literatura del Caribe hispano y de Mexico del siglo XVI al siglo XX". Presenta un analisis de textos de diferentes epocas desde un enfoque gastrocritico en estas dos areas. Catorce especialistas comentan las multiples connotaciones de las referencias culinarias en autores como Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Sor Juana, Jose Tomas de Cuellar, Martin Luis Guzman, Sandra Cisneros, Sara Sefchovich, para la parte dedicada a Mexico. Pedro Martir de Angleria, Fredrika Bremer, Leonardo Padura...
Saberes y sabores en Mexico y el Caribe es fruto del proyecto de investigacion "Los contextos culinarios en la literatura del Caribe hispano y de Mexi...
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461,00 zł |
El Quijote en America
ISBN: 9789042030510 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La novela Don Quijote forma parte de la herencia comun de Espana y Latinoamerica mas que cualquier otra obra espanola. Dificilmente se encontrara a un autor hispanoamericano que no haya dado su parecer sobre el Quijote, la novela o su creador, o que no se haya aproximado, aunque solo simbolicamente, al caballero de la triste figura. Aunque el camino del Quijote por America Latina difiere de su itinerario por Espana, aquel forma una parte importante e integrante de la recepcion del Quijote. "La Mancha, en verdad, adquirio todo su sentido en las Americas", dice Carlos Fuentes destacando asi la...
La novela Don Quijote forma parte de la herencia comun de Espana y Latinoamerica mas que cualquier otra obra espanola. Dificilmente se encontrara a un...
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430,56 zł |
Lope de Vega En La Invención de España: El Drama Histórico Y La Formación de la Conciencia Nacional
ISBN: 9781855662025 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este proyecto explora el papel del teatro lopesco en la construccion del 'yo' colectivo nacional. Se analizan la imagen de Espana y de los espanoles creada por Lope mediante una constante manipulacion de la historia patria, asi como los posibles efectos de la propagacion de esta imagen durante el siglo XVII.
Este proyecto explora el papel del teatro lopesco en la construccion del 'yo' colectivo nacional. Se analizan la imagen de Espana y de los espanoles c...
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402,99 zł |
Las Mocedades de Rodrigo: Estudios Críticos, Manuscrito Y Edición
ISBN: 9780952211976 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors: Alan Deyermond, Samuel G. Armistead, Thomas Montgomery, David Hook, Antonia Long, Vera Castro Lingl, Matthew Bailey, Mercedes Vaquero, Fernando Gomez Redondo, Fatima Alfonso Pinto
Contributors: Alan Deyermond, Samuel G. Armistead, Thomas Montgomery, David Hook, Antonia Long, Vera Castro Lingl, Matthew Bailey, Mercedes Vaquero, F...
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Raise Your Brown Black Fist 2: MORE Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino
ISBN: 9781432783549 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
ISBN: 9780814765463 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lopez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.
Lopez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness... 2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming B...
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Unbecoming Blackness: The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
ISBN: 9780814765470 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lopez uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences.
Lopez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic... 2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming ...
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Moments of Magical Realism in US Ethnic Literatures
ISBN: 9781137293299 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magic realism serve to memorialize, address, and redress traumatic ethnic histories.
A collection of essays that explores magical realism as a momentary interruption of realism in US ethnic literature, showing how these moments of magi...
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350,18 zł |
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
ISBN: 9780822349778 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherrie L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores socioeconomic, cultural, and...
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherrie L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, femi...
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127,21 zł |
War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/O Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780813569338 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-from support for anti-imperial war, as seen in Alejandro Murguia's Southern Front, to the disavowal of all war articulated in works such...
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, me...
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171,28 zł |
War Echoes: Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/O Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780813569345 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o responses to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. These responses evolved over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-from support for anti-imperial war, as seen in Alejandro Murguia's Southern Front, to the disavowal of all war articulated in works such...
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post-Vietnam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, me...
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675,01 zł |