Italian neighbours
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- 12 hodin čítania
How does an Englishman cope when he moves to Italy - not the tourist idyll but the real Italy? This book presents an account of the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture.
Literárny programSéria
Táto séria sa zaoberá zásadným významom literatúry a čítania v dnešnom svete, pričom kriticky skúma stav literárnej výuky na akademickej pôde. Každá kniha predstavuje polemický pohľad na to, ako sú tradičné literárne hodnoty spochybňované zvnútra aj zvonka. V čase ekonomickej neistoty a technologických zmien sa séria snaží o obnovenie a zdôraznenie zmyslu a prínosu literárneho čítania pre myslenie.
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