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Poetics – ebook
The first part of this essay gives a general description of the term „poetics”. At first, Aristotle claims that any art is based on a mimesis, or imitation. Aristotle proves this by arguing that curiosity is peculiar to any person. In particular, the curiosity of observing all sorts of unpleasant things, for example, images of dead animals, and getting pleasure from it.Data dostępności:
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Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety. Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of His Death. Second Edition – ebook
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
The great asset of Shakespeare: His Infinite Variety is its wide historical and geographical range - that is, from the time of the Bard himself to the latest metamorphoses of meanings new electronic media made available. Every reader, depending on his/her age and prior experience with Shakespeare, is at a different moment of this great historical-theoretical continuum of world culture. Everyone can...Data dostępności:
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The Merry Wives of Windsor – ebook
William Shakespeare
In „The Merry Wives of Windsor”, there is everything that we love in Shakespeare’s comedies. The classic comedy of Shakespeare, except that the acting characters are not as noble as usual, and the jester is not enough. The plot is simple – one fat knight Falstaff decided to roll up to two married ladies, and those who decided to teach him a lesson so that he would not allow himself such liberties to...Data dostępności:
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The Artistic Traditions of Non-European Cultures, vol. 5 – ebook
Aneta Pawłowska Adam Drozdowski Agnieszka Kuczyńska
MODERN AFRICAN ART AND CULTURE. Through the ages, the African continent has evoked a growing amount of interest among many scholars of various professions. The 21st century brought about many changes and marked the beginning of a completely different outlook concerning the African continent. It is a time when the Western World is finally attempting to utilize the gathered anthropological data about...Data dostępności:
Japan: Fictions and Reality – ebook
edited by Aleksandra Jarosz and Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny in collaboration with Karli Shimizu “Japan is a country with no minorities.” “Japanese society is the most homogenous in the world.” “Japan is the most religiously tolerant country in the world.” “The Japanese are always subservient and polite.” “The Japanese have no sense of humor.” Are these fiction or reality? We cannot guarantee you any...Data dostępności:
O Ty, z jakiejkolwiek przychodzisz krainy, przeczytaj opowiedzianą pieśń... Księga jubileuszowa profesor Jolanty Sierakowskiej-Dyndo – ebook
Księga ta jest hołdem złożonym Profesor Jolancie Sierakowskiej-Dyndo – znakomitej warszawskiej orientalistce i specjalistce w zakresie afganologii – przez jej przyjaciół, kolegów, współpracowników i uczniów. Są wśród nich wybitni orientaliści reprezentujący rozmaite specjalizacje: iraniści, arabiści, indolodzy, japoniści, hebraiści, sinolodzy – wytrawni językoznawcy, literaturoznawcy, historycy, kulturoznawcy,...Data dostępności:
Searching for Identity: Personal Experiences and Methodological Reflections – ebook
This volume is dedicated to the International PhD Program “Searching for Identity: Global Challenges, Local Traditions,” organized at the Faculty of “Artes Liberales” of the University of Warsaw, in 2013–2018. The volume aims at showing identity as a processual concept, using the example of the researcher as a living personality. It thus corresponds with the general trend in the humanities and social...Data dostępności:
Richard Wagner et sa réception en France. Premiere partie. Le musicien de l’avenir 1813-1883 – ebook
Michał Piotr Mrozowicki
The study is devoted to the Richard Wagner’s works reception, mainly music, in France in years 1813-1883. The volume covers the period till the 1883, when composer died. The author describes in detail two longer Wagner’s stays in Paris (1839-1842 and 1852-1861) and a few shorter visits (1849, 1850, 1853, 1855, 1858, 1861-1862, 1866 and 1867), analyzing the evolving relation of public opinion, press,...Data dostępności: