On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry
| On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry |
| Autore | ázek Jan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Prague : , : Karolinum Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
| Disciplina | 891.8615 |
| Soggetto non controllato | Slavic Philology |
| ISBN |
9788024651262
9788024651125 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preamble -- Part One | The mirror of time -- Parrots and monkeys -- The first palm -- Where grenades fall, there green palms grow -- First Excursion | Parrots on motorcycles: exoticisms of the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s -- Metaphors, dreams, travel -- Workers . . . Indians! -- Through the train window-Don't worry, I am not going to Paris -- Second Excursion | His head that watches us over the century's edge: poetic travels in the nineteenth century -- The notebook that he lost somewhere on the ship -- With the ship that carries tea and coffee -- Half-black, you understand? Here you have to be careful! -- New Icarus and the mestiza My Beautiful Arsiti -- Again some Malay landscape -- The jungle around us -- Sailors of all seas unite! -- Your longest and most adventurous journey -- Again and again man is proving that he has no wings -- Part Two | A hundred rose petals, on them no words -- Silences -- Sounds, smells, tastes -- Typography-optic configurations -- Photographs, cinema, and the magazine Home and the World -- Picture postcards -- Snapshots and reflections: poetry | travel | photography | death -- Author's note on translations and sources -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795625803321 |
ázek Jan
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| Prague : , : Karolinum Press, , 2022 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry
| On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry |
| Autore | ázek Jan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Prague : , : Karolinum Press, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (323 pages) |
| Disciplina | 891.8615 |
| Soggetto non controllato | Slavic Philology |
| ISBN | 80-246-5126-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preamble -- Part One | The mirror of time -- Parrots and monkeys -- The first palm -- Where grenades fall, there green palms grow -- First Excursion | Parrots on motorcycles: exoticisms of the Czech avant-garde in the 1920s -- Metaphors, dreams, travel -- Workers . . . Indians! -- Through the train window-Don't worry, I am not going to Paris -- Second Excursion | His head that watches us over the century's edge: poetic travels in the nineteenth century -- The notebook that he lost somewhere on the ship -- With the ship that carries tea and coffee -- Half-black, you understand? Here you have to be careful! -- New Icarus and the mestiza My Beautiful Arsiti -- Again some Malay landscape -- The jungle around us -- Sailors of all seas unite! -- Your longest and most adventurous journey -- Again and again man is proving that he has no wings -- Part Two | A hundred rose petals, on them no words -- Silences -- Sounds, smells, tastes -- Typography-optic configurations -- Photographs, cinema, and the magazine Home and the World -- Picture postcards -- Snapshots and reflections: poetry | travel | photography | death -- Author's note on translations and sources -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815337603321 |
ázek Jan
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| Prague : , : Karolinum Press, , 2022 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Return of Munchausen
| The Return of Munchausen |
| Autore | Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : New York Review Books, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (151 pages) |
| Disciplina |
891.73/42
891.7342 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
TurnbullJoanne
FormozovNikolai |
| Soggetto non controllato | Slavic Philology |
| ISBN | 1-68137-029-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Every baron has his flights of fancy -- Smoke that roars -- Kant's coeval -- In partes infidelium -- The devil in a droshky -- The theory of improbability -- The hermit of Bodenwerder -- The truth that ducked the man. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154663603321 |
Krzhizhanovsky Sigizmund
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| New York : , : New York Review Books, , 2016 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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