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Mr Price, or Tropical Madness and Metaphysics of a Two-by Daniel Gerould; Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Routledge 2001; US$ 100.00This volume contains two of Witkacy's "tropical" plays inspired by the playwright's trip to Ceylon and Australia in 1914 with anthropologist, Bronislaw Malinowski. more...
Intermediate Polishby Dana Bielec
Routledge 2004; US$ 40.95Intermediate Polish is designed for learners who have achieved basic proficiency and wish to progress to more complex language. more...
Country Houseby D. Gerould
Taylor & Francis 1997; US$ 42.95"Country House", a "comedy with corpses" is a subversion of all those realistic psychological dramas of jealousy, adultery, murder and suicide that ask to be taken seriously. This 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. more...
It's True! You Can Make Your Own Jokesby Sharon Holt
Allen & Unwin 2006; US$ 10.86A mixture of how-to and history, this book sets out the rules of joke-making and joke-telling (with lots of hilarious examples) and explores our fascination with japes, jibes, jokes and jesters. more...
Polish Verbs & Essentials of Grammarby Oscar Swan
McGraw-Hill 2008; US$ 15.00Sharpen your Polish verb and grammar skills with this all-in-one resource In addition to providing essential concepts regarding verbs and grammar, Polish Verbs & Essentials of Grammar also includes an index of the 500 most popular verbs. This book contains a multitude of examples employing contemporary language to give you a taste of the language in real-life situations. Each unit focuses on a single verbal or grammatical concept, providing concise yet comprehensive explanations. more...
The Phonology of Polishby Edmund Gussmann
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 199.00In the most complete phonology of Contemporary Standard Polish ever published Edmund Gussmann presents a wide range of data, much drawn from his own research and all presented in a clear, accessible manner. This important book will interest all scholars and advanced students of Polish and Slavic phonology. - ;This book is the most complete phonology of contemporary Polish ever published. It is topic-oriented and presents the fundamental characteristics and problems associated with each topic, among them syllable structure, vowel-zero alternations, palatalizations, and other vowel and consonant changes. Professor Gussmann re-examines assumptions about phonological contrasts and alternations, and raises and addresses central questions in morphophonology.... more...
Zapolskas Womenby Teresa Murjas
Intellect 2009; US$ 20.00This groundbreaking book contains the first English language translations of three plays by Polish playwright, actress and journalist Gabriela Zapolska. They were initially performed in fin-de-siecle, partitioned Poland. Each play focuses on the economic and social pressures faced by women. A general introduction and three focused essays will serve to contextualise the translations. The essays provide the following: biographical information about Zapolska relevant to the plays? subject matter, analyses of her significance within Polish and European literary and theatrical traditions and discussion of the social and historical conditions from which the plays emerged. Murjas considers the plays? performance history and delves into the significance... more...
The Discoverersby Daniel J. Boorstin
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Complex Emotions and Grammatical Mismatchesby Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 140.00The book offers a comparison of the structure and meaning of emotion concepts in large authentic Polish and English corpora. The authors investigate emotions which enter into relations with complex complements. The book is an excellent didactic tool and serves as reference material for teachers and students of Polish and English, translators, dictionary editors, and culture specialists. more...
Die polnische Dichterin Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska: Hauptmotive in ihrer Lyrikby Eliza Stehr
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 9.65Gegenstand dieses Buches ist die Darstellung der Hauptmotive im lyrischen Werk Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewskas, die in der polnischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts einen hohen Stellenwert einnimmt. In ihrem Schaffen spiegelt sich unter anderem die neue Stellung der Frau in der polnischen Gesellschaft nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wider. Der Natur in allen ihren Facetten als immer wiederkehrendes Motiv gilt hier das Hauptaugenmerk. In der Forschung werden oft drei Perioden in Pawlikowskas Schaffen unterschieden. Ihre zeitliche Bestimmung stützt sich auf die Veröffentlichung der Gedichtbände und auf die Ereignisse aus dem Leben der Dichterin, die eine starke Zäsur in ihrem Leben und gleichzeitig in ihrem Schaffen kennzeichnen. Im Jahre 1922 erschien... more...









