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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle : Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech Poetry.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Prague :
Karolinum Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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