wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Pillow Book of SEI Shōnagon
ISBN: 9780231073370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so eloquently relates. Featuring reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, conversation, poetry, and many other subjects, The Pillow Book is an intimate look at the...
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the cou...
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213,72 zł |
Modern Japanese Short Stories: Twenty-Five Stories by Japan's Leading Writers
ISBN: 9784805315248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
ISBN: 9780345803900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ivan Morris's definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.
Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan's Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. Focusing on the world of the emperor's court--a world deeply admired by Virginia Woolf, among others--renowned scholar of Japanese history and literature Ivan Morris explores the politics, society, religious life, and superstitions of the period. Offering readers detailed... Ivan Morris's definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.
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95,87 zł |
Fires on the Plain
ISBN: 9780804813792 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." --The New York Times **Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize** This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Fires on the Plain is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings. Within this larger disintegration is another, that of a single human being, Private Tamura. The war destroys each of his ties to society,...
"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." --The New York Times **Win...
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73,86 zł |
The Crazy Iris: And Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath
ISBN: 9780802151841 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Edited by one of Japan s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary of the August 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here some of Japan s best and most representative writers chronicle and re-create the impact of this tragedy on the daily lives of peasants, city professionals, artists, children, and families. From the crazy iris that grows out of season to the artist who no longer paints in color, the simple details described in these superbly crafted stories testify to the enormity of change in...
Edited by one of Japan s leading and internationally acclaimed writers, this collection of short stories was compiled to mark the fortieth anniversary...
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74,08 zł |
The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings
ISBN: 9780811201872 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 403 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One of the great fiction writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status. The title story in this collection of 12 works, told by an again beauty whose highly erotic nature is her constant undoing, ranges over all of 17th century Japanese life. The narrator is successively wife, court lady, courtesan, priest s concubine, mistress of a feudal lord and streetwalker. Ivan Morris, chairman of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures of Columbia University has done a...
One of the great fiction writers of Japan, Ihara Saikaku (1623-93) wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world the townsmen who were rising in wea...
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81,85 zł |
The Nobility of Failure
ISBN: 9784902075502 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Long recognized as a core book in any study of Japanese culture and literature, The Nobility of Failure examines the lives and deaths of nine historical individuals who faced overwhelming odds, and, realizing they were doomed, accepted their fate--to be killed in battle or by execution, to wither in exile, or to escape through ritual suicide. Morris then turns his attention to the kamikaze pilots of World War II, who gave their lives in defense of their nation in the full realization that their deaths would have little effect on the course of the war.
Through detail, crystal-clear prose and... Long recognized as a core book in any study of Japanese culture and literature, The Nobility of Failure examines the lives and deaths of nine historic...
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97,61 zł |