Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism (Calvi Pablo)(Pevná vazba)

Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism (Calvi Pablo)(Pevná vazba)

Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism explores the central role of narrative journalism in the formation of national identities in Latin America, and the concomitant role the genre had in the consolidation of the idea of Latin America as a supra-national entity. This work discusses the

Alicia in Terra Mirabili: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in Latin (Carroll Lewis)(Pevná vazba)

Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought: Two Centuries in Search of Originality (Fiorito Luca)(Pevná vazba)

Casa Moderna: Latin American Living (Jodidio Philip)(Pevná vazba)

Since the modernism pioneered by Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil, Latin America has become one of the world's most exciting locations for contemporary architecture. The wide architectural range, set amid varied climates, social conditions, and environments, has brought international attention to a

An Introduction to Latin American Philosophy (Nuccetelli Susana)(Pevná vazba)

Latin American philosophy is best understood as a type of applied philosophy devoted to issues related to the culture and politics of Latin America. This introduction provides a comprehensive overview of its central topics. It explores not only the unique insights offered by Latin American thinkers

Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 72: Humanities (McCann Katherine D.)(Pevná vazba)

Book of Latin American Cooking (Ortiz Elizabeth Lambert)(Pevná vazba)

The Book of Latin American Cooking is an exotic, exciting and uncomplicated cookbook that comes with a fascinating culinary introduction and notes on all the essential

Hicotea: A Nightlights Story (Alvarez Lorena)(Pevná vazba)

Raina Telegmeiger meets Miyazaki with a Latin American twist in this mesmerizing follow-up to the best-selling children's graphic novel Nightlights. Lorena Alvarez's spunky heroine Sandy returns to explore a magical new dimension. On a school field trip to the river, Sandy wanders away from her

In Pieces (Field Sally)(Pevná vazba)

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a

Adventures of Sally (Wodehouse P.G.)(Pevná vazba)

The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses, and the theatrical boarding-houses where young men and women dream of finding fame and

Japan Traveler's Companion: Japan's Most Famous Sights from Okinawa to Hokkaido (Goss Rob)(Pevná vazba)

*Winner of The North American Travel Journalists Association's Excellence in Travel Journalism Award* Japan mesmerizes and bewilders the visitor in equal measure, making a top-notch travel guide essential for anyone planning a trip to the land of the rising sun. Rob Goss is an award-winning Japan

The Fourth Estate: Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland (O'Brien Mark)(Pevná vazba)

The Fourth Estate examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland. While many media institutions have been subjected to historical scrutiny, the professional and organisational development of journalists, the changing practices of journalism and the contribution it

Reporting Immigration Conflict: Opportunities for Peace Journalism (Valentin-Llopis Mariely)(Pevná vazba)

In Reporting Immigration Conflict: Opportunities for Peace Journalism, Mariely Valentin-Llopis examines the role of American and Mexican media in promoting harsh views against Central American migrants. This examination focuses on the U.S. southwestern border crossing conflict in 2014 and 2019,

Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination (Tan Kathy-Ann)(Pevná vazba)

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination, author Kathy-Ann Tan investigates metaphors,

Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (Serrano Carmen A.)(Pevná vazba)

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization,

Ciceronian Controversies (Dellaneva Joann)(Pevná vazba)

The most important literary dispute of the Renaissance pitted those writers of Neo-Latin who favored imitation of Cicero alone, as the single best exemplar of Latin prose, against those who preferred to follow an eclectic array of literary models. This Ciceronian controversy is the subject of the

Writing and the Revolution: Venezuelan Metafiction 2004-2012 (Brown Katie)(Pevná vazba)

In contrast to recent theories of the 'global' Latin American novel, this book reveals the enduring importance of the national in contemporary Venezuelan fiction, arguing that the novels studied respond to both the nationalist and populist cultural policies of the Bolivarian Revolution and

Cassell's Latin Dictionary: Latin-English, English-Latin (Simpson D. P.)(Pevná vazba)

Since its first appearance in 1854, this dictionary has remained constant in its appeal to scholars through its many revisions. This Latin dictionary is among the best of its kind, reliable, compact and adequate for the needs of all save the specialist. Simpson has produced a book typographically

Paul Bowles: In the American Grain (Tharaud Barry Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Paul Bowles has often been considered a cult writer, a literary renegade: he lived more than fifty years as an expatriate in Morocco, and according to Norman Mailer, his works 'let in the murder, the drugs, the incest, the call of the orgy, the end of civilization.' In recent decades Bowles has

Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 - Texts and Contexts(Pevná vazba)

Picasso and Paper (Picasso Pablo)(Pevná vazba)

Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. This handsome new publication examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of

The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon (Bloom Harold)(Pevná vazba)

Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another--how literary traditions are made--and no writer has

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson Bill)(Pevná vazba)

Join Calvin and Hobbes on all their adventures in this three-volume hardcover collection of every comic strip from the comic strip's eleven year history (1985 to1996). Calvin and Hobbes is unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his

Adventures in Philosophy (O'Donoghue Brendan)(Pevná vazba)