ilość książek w kategorii: 2501
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Latin American Narratives and Cultural Identity: Selected Readings
ISBN: 9780820463209 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a selection of fourteen provocative and unique essays bringing together the views of exciting new scholarship on narratives and cultural identity in Latin America. In so doing, it balances theory, methodology, and description. The offerings in this volume deliver a clarion mix of original voices and cutting-edge approaches to the exploration of the topics, which reflect diverse perspectives on Latin American culture and literature. The contributions feature analyses of Latin American oral tradition, cultural identity, memory construction, storytelling, literary...
This book presents a selection of fourteen provocative and unique essays bringing together the views of exciting new scholarship on narratives and cul...
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365,81 |
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Textos Castigados: La Censura Literaria En El Siglo de Oro
ISBN: 9783034312455 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los indices de libros prohibidos fueron un instrumento capital de represion de la cultura escrita, pero no el unico. Este volumen se propone llevar a cabo un acercamiento a la historia literaria espanola de los siglos XVI y XVII que atiende, sobre todo, al clima intelectual de recelo ante la lectura y a los modos de control de los manuscritos e impresos. Los estudios aqui reunidos evaluan el impacto censorio en los generos mas importantes de la literatura y el pensamiento aureos: en el teatro, el poema lirico, la ficcion sentimental, la literatura obscena, la literatura espiritual, la...
Los indices de libros prohibidos fueron un instrumento capital de represion de la cultura escrita, pero no el unico. Este volumen se propone llevar a ...
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515,55 |
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Languages at War: External Language Spread Policies in Lusophone Africa: Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau at the Turn of the 21 St Century
ISBN: 9783631644362 / Angielski / Twarda / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial European countries at the turn of the 21st Century. It focuses on the external LSPs developed by the governments of Portugal, Brazil, United Kingdom, France and Germany towards Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau from the 1990s to the present. The study offers a perspective on the web of relationships involving European ex-colonial powers and the African postcolonial countries of Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The author seeks to examine the development...
This study explores the argument that postcolonial Africa has been the setting for competing external language spread policies (LSPs) by ex-colonial E...
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412,79 |
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New Lenses for Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de Plata
ISBN: 9781611485523 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Lenses for Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata examines the influence of science in the thought, creative process, writing, and drawing of Federico Garcia Lorca. This book establishes the historical, cultural, and biographical context in which Lorca encountered scientists and their work, and studies the writing and drawing of scientists he came to know at the Residencia de estudiantes in Madrid. Several of Lorca's contemporaries who were also exploring science's possibilities for their work in writing, art, and philosophy, including Jose Ortega y Gasset, Salvador...
New Lenses for Lorca: Literature, Art, and Science in the Edad de plata examines the influence of science in the thought, creative process, writing, a...
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231,76 |
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Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction: The Struggle for Modernity
ISBN: 9780198151999 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanish cultural studies are still in their infancy and to date there has been little interdisciplinary work. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introduction maps out the new terrain, taking into account the major changes which have been taking place in the context of Spanish Studies in both secondary and higher education. The focus is now upon a broader range of cultural forms, so this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its wide-ranging study of twentieth-century Spanish culture and society, emphasizing recent and contemporary developments.
Spanish cultural studies are still in their infancy and to date there has been little interdisciplinary work. Spanish Cultural Studies: An Introductio...
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213,78 |
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Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain
ISBN: 9780268032685 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain "addresses the political, cultural, and historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the recent discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the years during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The victor, General Francisco Franco, ruled as a dictator for thirty-six years, during which time he and his supporters had thousands of political dissidents or suspects and their families systematically killed and buried in anonymous mass graves. Although Spaniards living near the... "Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of Historical Memory in Spain "addresses the political, cultural, and historical debate t... |
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155,77 |
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Spanish Culture and Society: The Essential Glossary
ISBN: 9780340763421 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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189,80 |
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After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
ISBN: 9780823251780 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translation--from both a theoretical and a practical point of view--articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates the circulation of modern poetry and poetics across the Atlantic. It rethinks the theoretical paradigm of Anglo-American "modernism" based on the transnational, interlingual, and transhistorical...
Translation--from both a theoretical and a practical point of view--articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of write...
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204,45 |
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Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre: 1772 to the Present
ISBN: 9780826499349 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis's Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto Bieito and Alex Rigola in the early 21st century. Despite a largely indirect entrance into the culture, Shakespeare has gone on to become the best and known and most widely performed of all foreign playwrights. What is more, by the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century there have been more productions of Shakespeare than of all... Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish renderi... |
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307,44 |
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Christians and Moors in Spain, Volume I: AD 711-1150
ISBN: 9780856684111 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume gathers together extracts from texts in Latin, Hispanic vernaculars, and French, concerning the relations of the Christians and Moors in Spain in the first four hundred years of their co-existence in the Peninsula. An effort has been made to illustrate aspects other than the exclusively military.
This volume gathers together extracts from texts in Latin, Hispanic vernaculars, and French, concerning the relations of the Christians and Moors in S...
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143,42 |
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The Book of the Order of Chivalry
ISBN: 9781843838494 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ramon Llull (1232-1316) composed The Book of the Order of Chivalry between 1274 and 1276 as both an instrument of reform and an agent for change. His aim was to create and codify the rules for a unilateral Order of Chivalry. Loyalty to the Order, coupled with common sense, religious faith, education, and martial prowess, were in his view the keys to victory in the Holy Land and the Reconquista. The book was an immediate success and widely disseminated across Europe, eventually reaching a medieval English audience, though through a fanciful translation of a translation by William Caxton, in...
Ramon Llull (1232-1316) composed The Book of the Order of Chivalry between 1274 and 1276 as both an instrument of reform and an agent for change. His ...
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114,62 |
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Ramon Llull: A Contemporary Life
ISBN: 9781855661998 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture during his early years in Majorca, soon after the Christian reconquest, furnished him with a vision of the -Other- quite unique among medieval European intellectuals. It was not, however, until his thirties that he abandoned the courtly life, immersed himself in theological and philosophical studies and began his sustained campaign of conversion. He travelled on many occasions throughout Europe in search of royal and papal support and undertook several missions to north Africa, in the course of...
Ramon Llull was a highly original medieval writer and thinker. Direct contact with Moslem culture during his early years in Majorca, soon after the Ch...
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82,71 |
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César Vallejo: A Literary Biography
ISBN: 9781855662537 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, on 16 March 1892 and died in Paris on 15 April 1938. It traces the important events of his life - becoming a poet in Peru, falling in love with Mirtho in Trujillo, writing Trilce which would transform for ever the avant-garde in the Spanish-speaking world, fleeing to Paris in the summer of 1923 after being accused of burning down Carlos Santa Maria's house in Santiago de Chuco, falling in love with Georgette Philippart and then with communism,...
This is the first biography of Latin America's most important poet, the Peruvian Cesar Vallejo, who was born in an Andean village, Santiago de Chuco, ...
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462,44 |
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Made in Canada, Read in Spain: : Essays on the Translation and Circulation of English-Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9788376560168 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume is an edited collection of essays on the impact of English Canadian literature in Spain. Its relevance is related to the importance of the Spanish language in global publishing. By analyzing more than 100 sources, this volume covers areas that go from the institutional side of the Spanish-Anglo-Canadian exchange to the official acknowledgement of authors like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro by the Spanish literary system The volume is an edited collection of essays on the impact of English Canadian literature in Spain. Its relevance is related to the importance of t... |
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383,12 |
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Between Courtly Literature and Al-Andaluz: Oriental Symbolism and Influences in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes
ISBN: 9780415867252 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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243,34 |
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Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries; Portuguese Contexts
ISBN: 9781433130755 / Angielski / Twarda / 341 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that provide a conceptualization of the Portuguese diaspora with special attention to the importance of cross-cultural interferences and influences. Within this framework, and from a variety of perspectives, some of the chapters depict identity-formation paths among Portuguese Jews and Luso-Indians in...
This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience an...
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635,28 |
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L'Arrière-Texte: Pour Repenser Le Littéraire
ISBN: 9782875740953 / Francuski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longtemps occulte par l omnipresent intertexte, l arriere-texte, quasi contemporain, fait aujourd hui l objet d un regain d interet et d attention. Avancee et developpee par un couple d ecrivains francais reflechissant sur le mecanisme de creation a la fin des annees 1960, la notion permet d apprehender de facon plus precise le role, dans la litterature, des contextes au sens large du terme (historique, geographique, culturel, personnel), le rapport entre texte et image et l implication dans l uvre du sujet ecrivant ou lisant.
Nourri d apports multiples, l ouvrage propose de reconfigurer... Longtemps occulte par l omnipresent intertexte, l arriere-texte, quasi contemporain, fait aujourd hui l objet d un regain d interet et d attention. Av...
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268,45 |
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Beyond Containment: Corporeality in Mercè Rodoreda's Literature
ISBN: 9783034308885 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a critical and context-sensitive reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of Merce Rodoreda, through the perspectives of art and film theory, feminism, literary criticism, spatial studies, and nationalist theory. The text approaches Rodoreda as a Catalan woman writer whose work engages with and explores formulaic and normative notions of the gendered body in a particular cultural, geographical and political space. The study covers four main areas: corporeality as surface, image and texture; the relationship between the body and space; the idea of the culturally and...
This book provides a critical and context-sensitive reading of corporeality in the narrative fiction of Merce Rodoreda, through the perspectives of ar...
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329,46 |
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La Phraséologie Entre Langues Et Cultures: Structures, Fonctionnements, Discours
ISBN: 9783631627556 / Francuski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage essaie de croiser langues et cultures a travers le prisme de la phraseologie. L etude de la phraseologie, qu elle soit menee dans un cadre monolingue ou contrastif, a partir de genres discursifs generaux ou specifiques, conduit au meme constat: la phraseologie se nourrit de la culture et la culture se fait langue; elle en conditionne les specificites et en determine les emplois. Elle represente dans tous les cas de figure un processus sous-jacent a la dynamique des langues et a l expression des specificites culturelles des communautes linguistiques."
Cet ouvrage essaie de croiser langues et cultures a travers le prisme de la phraseologie. L etude de la phraseologie, qu elle soit menee dans un cadre...
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313,19 |
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Regards Sur Les « Spectateurs »: Periodical Essay - Feuilles Volantes - Moralische Wochenschriften - Fogli Moralistici - Prensa Moral
ISBN: 9783631631843 / Francuski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Les dix-sept regards sur les - spectateurs - reunis dans le present volume s inscrivent dans un projet de recherche de longue haleine sur l essai periodique en Europe. Le recueil prolonge la publication de plusieurs volumes dans notre collection sur les - Lumieres - et la mise en place d une base de donnees, tous consacres aux - spectateurs - de langues romanes. A la difference de ces derniers, il envisage cependant non seulement les - spectateurs - francais, italiens ou espagnols mais aussi des periodiques anglophones, russes ou germanophones. En elargissant ainsi la perspective, cet ouvrage...
Les dix-sept regards sur les - spectateurs - reunis dans le present volume s inscrivent dans un projet de recherche de longue haleine sur l essai peri...
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360,94 |