ilość książek w kategorii: 2251
National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature; Chile and Argentina
ISBN: 9781433105555 / Angielski / Twarda / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina examines the traumatic experiences of Chile and Argentina under authoritarian regimes and argues that in order for postdictatorship countries to successfully implement transitions to democracy, they must confront the past. This book employs the research of psychologists Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, Donald Dutton, Elizabeth Loftus, and Cathy Caruth, in order to better understand the emotional and psychological effects of national trauma in the works of Chileans Diamela Eltit and Ariel Dorfman, and...
National Trauma in Postdictatorship Latin American Literature: Chile and Argentina examines the traumatic experiences of Chile and Argentina un...
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443,51 zł |
Crossing Cultures- Cruzando culturas; Hispanic Authors and the Challenges They Overcame in the United States- Autores hispanos y sus desafíos superado
ISBN: 9781433112539 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crossing Cultures/Cruzando culturas focuses on the creation of literary works and how these works reflect the life experiences of the authors. The purpose of this book is to inspire young Mexican-American, Hispanic, and Latino people by demonstrating that education is the key to life through the example of authors who have become successful in spite of their modest beginnings. Their love for education and their drive to improve themselves has turned them into nationally and internationally known authors recognized by major publishing companies. Their books in English have been...
Crossing Cultures/Cruzando culturas focuses on the creation of literary works and how these works reflect the life experiences of the authors. ...
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450,88 zł |
Sor Juana/Música: How the Décima Musa Composed, Practiced, and Imagined Music
ISBN: 9781433102691 / Angielski / Twarda / 143 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In her lost treatise on music which she titled El caracol, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz addressed the image of the spiral as a metaphor for musical harmony, an image which she distilled in one of her romances. Singing in the choir of the Templo de San Jeronimo, Sor Juana and the other nuns of her convent were raising the tone of their musica humana to be in accord with the music of the heavenly choirs, which the nuns were imitating in their singing. Octavio Paz theorizes a -triple interes- in music in Sor Juana s works: -practico, teorico, filosofico-. Numerous poems allude to the...
In her lost treatise on music which she titled El caracol, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz addressed the image of the spiral as a metaphor for musica...
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436,40 zł |
Oral and Written Narratives and Cultural Identity: Interdisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 9780820488615 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and from autobiographical to regional and national. Indigenous storytelling, as well as storytelling for and by children and the elderly, are the main focus of these essays. Together, these fifteen texts make a significant contribution toward a deeper understanding of various aspects of textual and oral narrative: they broaden the lines of inquiry into multidisciplinary and multicultural interests, particularly those centering on the construction,...
This interdisciplinary volume centers on the interrelations of storytelling and various manifestations of cultural identity, from written to oral and ...
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550,96 zł |
Detective Fiction in Cuban Society and Culture
ISBN: 9783039106981 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the author and critic, Leonardo Padura Fuentes.
The author traces the development of Cuban detective writing in the light of the work of twentieth century Western European literary critics and philosophers including Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Roland Barthes, Jean Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, Jean Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard in order to gain a better understanding of the social and historical context in which... This book examines Cuban society through a study of its detective fiction and more particularly contemporary Cuban society through the novels of the a...
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329,21 zł |
Kollektive Identitaetskonstruktion in Der Migration: Eine Fallstudie Zur Sprachkontaktsituation Der Wolgadeutschen in Argentinien
ISBN: 9783631625910 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welche Rolle spielt die Gruppensprache bei der kollektiven Identitatskonstruktion in der Migration? Das Beispiel der Wolgadeutschen in Argentinien, die nach uber 250 Jahren seit der ersten Auswanderung die ursprungliche Sprache und Kultur aufrecht erhalten haben, eignet sich im besonderen Masse zur Beantwortung dieser Frage. Diese Studie wertet 381 Fragebogen und 12 Interviews quantitativ und qualitativ aus, um das Thema aus einer interdisziplinaren Perspektive zu beleuchten. Sprachkenntnisse, -verwendungen und Einstellungen der Mitglieder der untersuchten Gruppe, Sprachkontaktphanomene in...
Welche Rolle spielt die Gruppensprache bei der kollektiven Identitatskonstruktion in der Migration? Das Beispiel der Wolgadeutschen in Argentinien, di...
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329,21 zł |
Mythos Stadt - Stadtmythen
ISBN: 9783631628492 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Beitrage des Bandes beleuchten die vielschichtigen Verflechtungen des Mythos Stadt mit (kultur)hegemonialen, ideologischen, stadteplanerischen, okonomischen oder subjektiven Interessen. Sie decken die Konstruktionsebenen ausgewahlter literarischer, philosophischer, stadteplanerischer und subkultureller Phanomene auf und zeigen, wie der Mythos Stadt und seine Aneignungsformen nicht nur die Gestaltung von Stadt, sondern auch die Art und Weise pragen, wie Stadt erlebt und Identitat konstruiert wird."
Die Beitrage des Bandes beleuchten die vielschichtigen Verflechtungen des Mythos Stadt mit (kultur)hegemonialen, ideologischen, stadteplanerischen, ok...
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329,21 zł |
Dictatorships in the Hispanic World: Transatlantic and Transnational Perspectives
ISBN: 9781611475890 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the twentieth century. Some of the themes explored through a transatlantic perspective include testimonial accounts of violence and resistance in prisons; hunger and repression; exile, silence and intertextuality; bildungsroman and the modification of gender roles; and the role of trauma and memory within the genres of the novel, autobiography, testimonial literature, the essay, documentaries, puppet theater, poetry, and visual art. By looking at...
This book broaches a comparative and interdisciplinary approach in its exploration of the phenomenon of the dictatorship in the Hispanic World in the ...
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825,49 zł |
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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365,53 zł |
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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515,14 zł |
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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436,40 zł |
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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239,78 zł |
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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217,15 zł |
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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165,67 zł |
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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191,50 zł |
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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201,90 zł |
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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310,62 zł |
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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125,29 zł |
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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127,53 zł |
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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87,96 zł |