Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, V: 600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781558610279 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary resource illuminates the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change and extends the historical understanding of literature, feminism, and the making of modern India. The biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes in both volumes, supported by an introduction which Anita Desai...
These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new readin...
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Cast ME out If You Will: Stories and Memoir
ISBN: 9781558611887 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985) in "Come Back," her fictional account of an Indian woman activist's life. In Cast Me Out If You Will, however, Antherjanam's stories bring to life the experiences of women living at all levels of Indian society. From the faithful and devoted nanny of "Wooden Cradles" to the lonely young bride of "In the Moonlight," Antherjanam's characters are keenly observed and faithfully rendered. This unique collection of short stories and personal...
"There have been no women in our part of the country whose names posterity found it worthwhile to cherish," writes Lalithambika Antherjanam (1909-1985...
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Tears of Silence
ISBN: 9781844017249 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'My life was like running a hurdle race - every so often I had to jump over an obstacle.' This is the story of Kaashi's journey from her early childhood in Pakistan to married adult life in Britain. It is a story of courage and determination in a world dominated by men. Kaashi is an ordinary Pakistani woman, one of many who suffer all kinds of abuse within their own family setting. The disgrace and shame prevent them from exposing the culprits. Accompany Kaashi as she shares with us the heartache and frustration. What is the future for women like her? Does she manage to keep her family...
'My life was like running a hurdle race - every so often I had to jump over an obstacle.' This is the story of Kaashi's journey from her early childho...
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The Granta Book Of India
ISBN: 9781862077843 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading literary magazine. Here are eighteen contemporary voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic places in fiction, reportage and memoir.
Contributors include Suketu Mehta, on Mumbai, a city "with an identity crisis; " Chitrita Banerji, on "What Bengali Widows Cannot Eat"; Pankaj Mishra, on the making of jihadis in Pakistan and Afghanistan; and Rory Stewart, among the dervishes of Pakistan. Ramachandra Guha and Amit Chaudhuri remember... "The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading l...
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Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion
ISBN: 9781883513023 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since relations between the U.S. and Vietnam have normalized, many more people are traveling to this exotic country, previously closed to a generation of Western visitors. Vietnam provides one of the first chances for Americans to know the Vietnamese outside the context of war. Vietnamese have been telling stories for thousands of years, in poetry and in song, in Chinese script and then in Vietnamese nom, and more recently, in novels and short stories. These 17 stories, from contemporary Vietnamese writers living in Vietnam and abroad, take the literary traveler to extraordinary...
Since relations between the U.S. and Vietnam have normalized, many more people are traveling to this exotic country, previously closed to a generation...
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The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History
ISBN: 9781934043080 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yongs works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential martial arts novelist in 20th-century Chinese literary history.
This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yongs works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in ...
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554,24 zł |
Collected English Works of Yone Noguchi: Poems, Novels and Literary Essays
ISBN: 9784861660368 / Angielski / Twarda / 2800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new six-volume Major Work from Edition Synapse brings together for the first time Yone Noguchi s works in English, including all of his books of poetry, novels, and literary essays. "This new six-volume Major Work from Edition Synapse brings together for the first time Yone Noguchi s works in English, including all of h... |
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Straight to Darkness
ISBN: 9784902075137 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This well-received collection of original stories and articles inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft was published in Japan in 2002 as a two-volume set under the name Hishinkai. The list of contributing authors is a whos-who of Japanese horror fiction, featuring some of the finest writers in Japan today, and reviews demonstrate that the Japanese taste for horror can send shivers up English-speaking spines as well!
In cooperation with Tokyo Sogensha, the Japanese publishers, and the anthology editor, Mr. Asamatsu Ken, we are proud to present this third volume of the series,... This well-received collection of original stories and articles inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft was published in Japan in 2002...
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96,43 zł |
Journeys of Desire: A Study of the Balinese Text Malat
ISBN: 9789067181372 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the late seventeenth century until the Dutch conquest of the early twentieth Century Bali was ruled by a set of competing kingdoms. This study of the Balinese text Kidung Malat is the first work in Indonesian historical studies to analyse the main ideology of these Balinese kingdoms. It does so by demonstrating how the performance and presentation of the text presented an image of the ideal prince to both rulers and subjects. The Kidung Malat exemplifies courtly ideology through its descriptions of the adventures of kings and princes from the era of the medieval kingdoms of...
From the late seventeenth century until the Dutch conquest of the early twentieth Century Bali was ruled by a set of competing kingdoms. This study of...
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Print, Poetics, and Politics: A Sumatran Epic in the Colonial Indies and New Order Indonesia
ISBN: 9789067182331 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study presents the text and first English translation of a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic called the tale of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim Leman, the hero's name. This is a famous southern Batak story from the town of Sipirok. The version at issue, in the Angkola Batak language, was published as a folkloric but also rather novelistic printed paperback book for a popular southern Batak audience in 1941, at the end of Dutch colonial rule in the Indies. This sly book version of Datuk Tuongku by the novelist and newspaperman M.J. Soetan Hasoendoetan, gave southern Batak readers...
This study presents the text and first English translation of a Sumatran turi-turian or chanted epic called the tale of Datuk Tuongku Aji Malim...
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Married to the Demon King : Sri Daoruang and Her Demon Folk
ISBN: 9789749575581 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translator Susan F. Kepner makes these tales available for the first time to English-language readers. She introduces the tales with a lively discussion of the writer and her context, retells the plotline of the classical Ramakian, and then presents the translated tales, in which the demon king, contrary to expectation, is a most gentle and endearing demon. Finally, she reveals the humor embedded in these tales of family life, and in Sida's, or Everywoman's, marriage to the demon king. Translator Susan F. Kepner makes these tales available for the first time to English-language readers. She introduces the tales with a lively discu... |
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Lao Folktales
ISBN: 9789749575871 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet the legendary trickster Xieng Mieng who matches his wits with merchants, monks, and kings. We find a quick-witted toad that terrifies tigers, a turtle that flies, a cadre of snails that race a rabbit, and a mynah bird that speaks five languages fluently. The reader may recognize a whisper of Aesop or a Jataka tale, but each story is distinctively Lao, retold with Lao humor and charm reflecting a Buddhist culture in a Marxist state. Works... Here in one slim volume is a selection of the best-known and best-loved Lao folktales that have entertained the Lao people for generations. We meet... |
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Victorian Lady Travellers in Asia - A Collection of Travel Writings: Part 1, 5 Vols
ISBN: 9784861660276 / Angielski / Twarda / 2150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the reprint of Recollections by Marianne North, a leading lady traveller in the Victorian era, Edition Synapse has initiated a series of facsimile collections of travel writing by Victorian women on Asia in the nineteenth century. Victorian Lady Travellers in Asia is the first in a series of four collections of five volumes each by British lady travellers who came to Japan and China in the period of early modernization. These writings together with many plates and photographs (which are reproduced here) represent a variety of Western women s views on Asian culture within a... Following the reprint of Recollections by Marianne North, a leading lady traveller in the Victorian era, Edition Synapse has initiated a series of ... |
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Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780253219534 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While some religious texts may remain static over time, the Ramayana epic has been retold in a variety of ways over the centuries and across South Asia. Some of the narrative's most probing and innovative retellings have appeared in print in the last 100 years in the region of South India. This collection brings together, for the first time, modern retellings translated from the four major South Indian languages and from genres as diverse as drama, short stories, poetry, and folk song. The selections focus on characters generally seen as stigmatized or marginalized, and on themes largely... While some religious texts may remain static over time, the Ramayana epic has been retold in a variety of ways over the centuries and across South ... |
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Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi
ISBN: 9780761839491 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914-1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history--in India and elsewhere on the globe. The lingering trauma of World War I, the rise of radical state ideologies in Russia, Italy, Japan, and Germany, world-wide depression in the 1930s along with a host of other unsettling political, cultural, and technological realities revealed a world of bewildering complexity and...
Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gand...
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307,59 zł |
The Way and Its Power : A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780415361811 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.
Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole o...
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Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
ISBN: 9780415361804 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1939, this book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's.
First published in 1939, this book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's.
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Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku
ISBN: 9781933947020 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces in the Way is simultaneously a critical interpretation of the writings of noh playwright and thinker Komparu Zenchiku (1407-1470); a refutation of received views of Japanese traditional arts (michi); and an analysis of medieval Japanese uses of texts. The disciplinary approach is broadly that of cultural studies, combining close reading, social contextualization, and drawing on multiple fields. The study is organized through the five elements that Konishi Jin'ichi's identified as essential to michi: specialization, transmission, conformity, universality and authority. Each of these is...
Traces in the Way is simultaneously a critical interpretation of the writings of noh playwright and thinker Komparu Zenchiku (1407-1470); a refutation...
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560,20 zł |
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781906165062 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity. With the same elegance and intelligence for which he has become known, Chaudhuri writes in these essays about Indian popular culture and high culture, travel...
In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a mode...
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349,48 zł |
The Book of Songs
ISBN: 9780415361743 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1937 this volume is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until it was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of the nineteenth century.
First published in 1937 this volume is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until it was published in 1937 it had not be...
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1296,75 zł |