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UNINA9910458483903321 |
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Autore |
Dabove Juan Pablo |
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Titolo |
Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / / Juan Pablo Dabove |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2007] |
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©2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 pages) |
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Collana |
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Illuminations : cultural formations of the Americas |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Latin American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Brigands and robbers in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-369) and index. |
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El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II). |
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UNINA9910450324603321 |
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Autore |
Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy <1885-1939., > |
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Country house / / by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ; translated and with an introduction by Daniel Gerould |
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Amsterdam : , : Harwood Academic Publishers, , 1997 |
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1-135-29990-0 |
1-280-14983-3 |
0-203-98611-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (96 p.) |
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Polish theatre archive ; ; v. 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GerouldDaniel Charles <1928-> |
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Disciplina |
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Polish drama |
Polish literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translation of: W małym dworku. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE SERIES; LIST OF PLATES; CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF STANISLAW IGNACY WITKIEWICZ (ALSO KNOWN AS WITKACY); INTRODUCTION; COUNTRY HOUSE; The Characters; ACT ONE; ACT TWO; ACT THREE; APPENDIX; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Country House, a ''''comedy with corpses,'''' is a wicked subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. Witkacy''s send-up assumes the form of a ghost story full of surprises, in the course of which an entire family of four is gleefully dispatched to the other world. When it was first performed in 1923 in Torun, Country House was judged unsuitable for the general public because it derided moral, social and dramatic convention. Three years later, as directed by the playwright himself in Lwów, the drama proved an |
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