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23 produkter
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Av David Bellos
Häftad, 2012
142 kr
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos asks: how do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This funny, wise and life-affirming language book shows how, from puns to poetry, news bulletins to the Bible, Asterix to Swedish films, translation is at the heart of everything we do - …
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2011
108 kr
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People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbours' languages - as did many ordinary Europeans in times past. But today, we all use …
Chronicle In Stone
Av Ismail Kadare, David Bellos
Häftad, 2018
136 kr
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In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and bombings, his own innocence and wonder are lost forever in the madness and brutality of the Second World War.A disturbing mix of tragedy and comedy, …
The Novel of the Century
The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2017
108 kr
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GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist'Any reader …
Leo Spitzer
Essays on Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Av Bellos, David Bellos m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
654 kr
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The undisputed master of stylistic criticism, Leo Spitzer combined phenomenal learning in historical and comparative linguistics with brilliant and original critical insight. He was born in Vienna in 1887. He studied Romance Philology at the Universities of Vienna and Paris and then taught at …
Balzac: Old Goriot
Av David Bellos
Häftad, 1987
486 kr
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This up-to-date account of the novel's composition, structure, and achievement provides readers with the literary and historical knowledge needed to make sense of the text. Professor Bellos explains how Balzac challenged prevailing nineteenth-century expectations of what novels should be like.
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Av David Bellos
Häftad, 2012
330 kr
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Who Owns This Sentence? – A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
Av Alexandre Montagu, David Bellos
Inbunden, 2025
338 kr
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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but …
Who Owns This Sentence? - A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
Av David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu
Häftad, 2025
266 kr
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Jacques Tati His Life & Art
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2010
238 kr
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Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakeable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of sheer slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest beginnings as a music hall mime …
Georges Perec: A Life in Words
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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"It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec" - Gilbert Adair, Sunday TimesWinner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most …
Jacques Tati
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2012
147 kr
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The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of slapstick genius that made audiences around the world …
Romain Gary
A Tall Story
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2010
170 kr
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Airman, war hero, immigrant, law student, diplomat, novelist and celebrity spouse, Romain Gary had several lives thrust upon him by the history of the twentieth century, but he also aspired to lead many more. He wrote more than two dozen books and a score of short stories under several different …
Jacques Tati
Av David Bellos
Häftad, 2001
163 kr
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The full story of one of France's greatest cinema legends, a clown whose film-making innovation was to turn everyday life into an art form.Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of slapstick genius that made audiences around the world …
Who Owns This Sentence?
A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
Av David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu
Inbunden, 2024
269 kr
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'Fascinating' Telegraph'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker'[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright ... Not just authors, but artists in many media, scientists, …
Who Owns This Sentence?
A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
Av David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu
Häftad, 2024
202 kr
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'Fascinating' Telegraph'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker'[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright ... Not just authors, but artists in many media, scientists, …
Who Owns This Sentence?
A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
Av Alexandre Montagu, David Bellos
E-bok, 2024
45 kr
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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but …
IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? The Amazing Adventure of Translation
Av David Bellos
E-bok, 2019
102 kr
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Kniga vydayushchegosya sovremennogo perevodchika i pisatelya, laureata Bukerovskoj i Gonkurovskoj premij, posvyashchena tonkostyam mnogogrannoj perevodcheskoj deyatel''nosti."YA popytalsya ohvatit'' vsyu kartinu celikom, issleduya rol'' perevoda v kul''turnoj, social''noj i drugih sferah …
The Novel of the Century
The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables
Av David Bellos
Häftad, 2018
152 kr
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'Never mind those self-help manuals urging that some classic novel may change your life; in this sparkling study of the birth, growth and afterlife of Hugo's evergreen blockbuster, David Bellos argues that Les Misérables already has' Boyd Tonkin, Economist'Any reader who hasn't yet embarked on …
