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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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1357,85 |
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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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212,32 |
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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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352,20 |
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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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1357,85 |
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Chinese Poems
ISBN: 9780415361750 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1946. Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry.
First published in 1946. Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry.
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1357,85 |
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Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang
ISBN: 9780415361736 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1960, Arthur Waley here translates, whole or as extracts, twenty-six pieces, making an invaluable addition to world literature.
First published in 1960, Arthur Waley here translates, whole or as extracts, twenty-six pieces, making an invaluable addition to world literature.
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1357,85 |
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The Secret History of the Mongols : And Other Pieces
ISBN: 9780415361798 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1963 this book largely uses the Chinese version but with constant reference to the Mongol text. The parts selected (founded on story-tellers' tales) date from the middle of the thirteenth century.
First published in 1963 this book largely uses the Chinese version but with constant reference to the Mongol text. The parts selected (founded on stor...
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1357,85 |
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The Real Tripitaka : And Other Pieces
ISBN: 9780415361781 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1952 The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures, spiritual and material, both in India and after his return to China.
First published in 1952 The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures, spiritual and material, both in India ...
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1357,85 |
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Yuan Mei : Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet
ISBN: 9780415361828 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1956. Arthur Waley presents here an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time.
First published in 1956. Arthur Waley presents here an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his ti...
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1357,85 |
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Arthur Waley: Collected Writings on China
ISBN: 9780415362597 / Angielski / Twarda / 3024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arthur Waley's place as one of the finest translators, literary men and sinologists of the twentieth century is undeniable: his meticulous research, based on original source material and fresh translations with extensive introductions and explanatory notes continue to provide the best resources for understanding Chinese literature and poetry, history and philosophy. RoutledgeCurzon here re-issues eleven of his most significant works on China as they were originally published and as Waley himself intended to see them in print.
Arthur Waley's place as one of the finest translators, literary men and sinologists of the twentieth century is undeniable: his meticulous research, b...
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1851,61 |
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Poetry, Politics and Culture: Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts
ISBN: 9780415480055 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination--in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English--from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation. The book is interdisciplinary: it studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography (subaltern,... This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination--in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English--from its original quasi-spiritual longings to it... |
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715,95 |
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China Abroad - Travels, Subjects, Spaces
ISBN: 9789622099456 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different global locations.
The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented sin...
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207,90 |
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China Abroad - Travels, Subjects, Spaces
ISBN: 9789622099890 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented since the beginning of the last century. In so doing, it aims to offer an overview of the debate about Chineseness as it has emerged in different global locations.
The book seeks to address how movements across cultures shape the different ways in which China and Chineseness have been imagined and represented sin...
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117,46 |
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Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250-1450
ISBN: 9789814277013 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of justice in China for almost a thousand years, so much so his court cases have been adapted as stories, novels and plays over the centuries. Now, for the very first time a series of eight ballad-stories on Judge Bao, dating from the period 1250-1450, are offered in a complete and annotated translation. These texts will provide the reader a reflection of the legend of Judge Bao in its earliest phase of development, with an extended introduction placing the ballad-stories in context with the development...
Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of justice in China for almost a thousand years, so much so ...
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212,32 |
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The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader
ISBN: 9780415467476 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field, this Critical Reader confronts how theory in the Indian context is responding in vital terms to our understanding of that condition today. The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader is made up of four sections looking in turn at:
Each section is prefaced with a short introduction by... India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field,... |
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478,91 |
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Trespasses: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780822346265 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link culture with politics and a remarkable critical voice within the academy. For more than four decades, Miyoshi worked outside the mainstream, trespassing into new fields, making previously unseen connections, and upending naive assumptions. With an impeccable sense of when a topic or discussion had lost its critical momentum, he moved on to the next question, and then the next after that, taking on matters of literary form, cross-cultural relations,...
Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link cult...
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493,76 |
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Trespasses: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780822346371 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link culture with politics and a remarkable critical voice within the academy. For more than four decades, Miyoshi worked outside the mainstream, trespassing into new fields, making previously unseen connections, and upending naive assumptions. With an impeccable sense of when a topic or discussion had lost its critical momentum, he moved on to the next question, and then the next after that, taking on matters of literary form, cross-cultural relations,...
Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link cult...
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118,45 |
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The Complete Clay Sanskrit Library: 56-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780814717431 / Angielski / Twarda / 17500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Clay Sanskrit Library, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation, has been created to introduce classical Sanskrit literature to a wide international readership. This literature combines great beauty, enormous variety and more than three thousand years of continuous history and development.
The Clay Sanskrit Library, co-published by NYU Press and the JJC Foundation, has been created to introduce classical Sanskrit literature to a wide int...
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3915,53 |
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Mahabharata: 15-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780814717448 / Angielski / Twarda / 3250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Epic: Maha.bharata The Maha.bharata tells the tale of the epic battle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas for the thrown. It begins with the famous game of dice between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which sets the scene for the war that will lie at the center of the Maha.bharata epic. But even after the war is ostensibly over when the heroic but flawed king of the Kauravas is dishonorably defeated in battle by his arch enemy, the extended family is still wracked in conflict leaving survivors, victors and vanquished struggling to comprehend their loss. Perhaps the most enigmatic... Epic: Maha.bharata The Maha.bharata tells the tale of the epic battle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas for the thrown. It begins with the f... |
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1041,84 |
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The Clay Sanskrit Library: Ramayana: 5-Volume Set
ISBN: 9780814717455 / Angielski / Twarda / 1250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ramayana epic centers around Rama, the crown prince of the city of Ayodhya, providing a profound meditation on the paradox of the hero as both human and divine. After rescuing a sage from persecution by demons. Rama attends a tournament in the neighboring city of Mithila where he wins the prize and the hand of Sita, the princess of Mithila. But a court intrigue involving one of the king s junior wives and a maidservant forces Rama into a fourteen-year banishment to the jungle with his wife, Sita, and his loyal brother Lakshmana. When Sita is abducted by the demon king Ravana, Rama goes... The Ramayana epic centers around Rama, the crown prince of the city of Ayodhya, providing a profound meditation on the paradox of the hero as both ... |
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350,57 |
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