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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780195392067 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses...
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more t...
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50,05 zł |
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Tales of Moonlight and Rain
ISBN: 9780231139120 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu. The title Ugetsu monogatari (literally "rain-moon tales") alludes to the belief that mysterious beings appear on cloudy, rainy nights and in mornings with a lingering moon. In "Shiramine," the vengeful ghost of...
First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. The...
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356,97 zł |
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Tales of Moonlight and Rain
ISBN: 9780231139137 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu. The title Ugetsu monogatari (literally "rain-moon tales") alludes to the belief that mysterious beings appear on cloudy, rainy nights and in mornings with a lingering moon. In "Shiramine," the vengeful ghost of...
First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. The...
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110,96 zł |
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Beyond Bollywood and Broadway: Plays from the South Asian Diaspora
ISBN: 9780253220684 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa--many published here for the first time--delves into the vibrant, cosmopolitan theatre of the South Asian diaspora. These original and provocative works explore the experience of diaspora by drawing on cultural references as diverse as classical Indian texts, adaptations of Shakespeare and Homer, current events, and world music, film, and dance. Neilesh Bose provides historical background on South Asian migration and performance traditions in each region, along with critical introductions and biographical... This collection of 11 plays, from North America, the U.K., and South Africa--many published here for the first time--delves into the vibrant, cosmo... |
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117,25 zł |
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Korean Treasures: Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University
ISBN: 9781851242870 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford are home to many historically significant and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artifacts related to Korean history and culture. Despite their importance, many of these items have been overlooked within the libraries' collections and largely neglected by scholars. Korean Treasures seeks to change this by highlighting the many noteworthy and unusual archaeological relics and artworks in the collections and presenting them together in a single volume for the first time. Notable items included here are the court... The Bodleian Library and the museums of the University of Oxford are home to many historically significant and valuable manuscripts, rare books, an... |
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180,08 zł |
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Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9781906165017 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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91,27 zł |
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Eerie Tales from Old Korea
ISBN: 9781624120022 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homer B. Hulbert and James S. Gale, two of the most famous North American missionaries to come to Korea in the 1880s, were very fond of ghost stories, but for years the Korean scholars they met swore that no such stories existed in Korea war. On the one hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Hulbert and Gale, the present selection of Korean ghost stories is offered for the pleasure of readers in the twenty-first century.
Homer B. Hulbert and James S. Gale, two of the most famous North American missionaries to come to Korea in the 1880s, were very fond of ghost stories,...
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58,60 zł |
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Ages Ago
ISBN: 9780674181359 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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282,72 zł |
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Modern Literature of Cambodia: Transnational Voices of Transformation
ISBN: 9781517435462 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Literature of Cambodia captures the poignant experience of Cambodians in the homeland and diaspora through fiction, poetry, essay and drama. Current themes of modern Cambodian literature include the quest for national and community 'development, ' social injustice, and feminist writing that critiques the diminished role of women and the ongoing critique of arranged marriage in Cambodia. It is the first collection of modern Cambodian literature in English
Modern Literature of Cambodia captures the poignant experience of Cambodians in the homeland and diaspora through fiction, poetry, essay and drama. Cu...
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60,69 zł |
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Karambhumi: Karambhumi by Munshi Premchand
ISBN: 9781532890376 / Hindi / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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60,69 zł |
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Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays: Selections
ISBN: 9780231170482 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches to knowledge. He strongly encouraged scholars to return to the simple, ethical precepts of early Confucianism, and in his best-known work, Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge), he applied this paradigm to literature, government, economics, history, education, and philology. This volume includes translations of selected essays from Rizhi lu and Gu Yanwu's Shiwen Ji (Collected Poems and Essays), along with an...
Gu Yanwu pioneered the late-Ming and early Qing-era practice of Han Learning, or Evidential Learning, favoring practical over theoretical approaches t...
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318,99 zł |
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Trong Buot Pha Le
ISBN: 9781517246358 / Wietnamski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of short stories based on writer's memory of many travels all over the mad world.
This is a collection of short stories based on writer's memory of many travels all over the mad world.
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56,65 zł |
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Asian American Literature and the Environment
ISBN: 9780415713238 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies. This collection demonstrates the distinctiveness of Asian American writers' positions on topics of major concern today: environmental justice, identity and the land, war environments, consumption, urban environments, and the environment and creativity. Represented authors include Amy Tan,... This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian... |
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782,04 zł |
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The Essential Tagore
ISBN: 9780674417045 / Angielski / Miękka / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Essential Tagore "showcases the genius of India s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known. Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore s birth, this ambitious collection the largest single volume of his work available in English attempts to represent his extraordinary achievements in ten genres: poetry, songs, autobiographical works, letters, travel writings, prose, novels, short stories, humorous pieces, and plays. In addition to the newest translations in the modern idiom, it includes a... "The Essential Tagore "showcases the genius of India s Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diver... |
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133,52 zł |
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Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume II: Pure Land
ISBN: 9780520268937 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. This second volume of Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki brings together Suzuki's writings on Pure Land Buddhism. At the center of the Pure Land tradition is the Buddha Amida and his miraculous realm known as...
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside Japan encountered Buddhism for the first...
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257,25 zł |
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Si Rizal at Ang MGA Diwata
ISBN: 9781499293029 / Tagalog / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Excerpt: Rizal: - Ako ay iniwan.... Hindi na inisip, Ang nagsisiluhang Ina at kapatid, Nagpasasang lahat sumimsim ng tamis Ng pagliliwaliw.... at kami'y sa sakit. Anong pagkahirap ng ganitong buhay Maraming kapatid ay di maasahan, Ang nangatuturing na mga panganay Na dapat huwarin sa mabuting asal, Sa landas ng puri'y dapat na mag-akay At dapat magsikap ng ikararangal, Ng kanyang kaanak, ng kanyang pangalan, Ay siyang nagiging masamang huwaran At dumog sa hilig na napakahalay. Ang tanang pag-asa ng Ina kong giliw Ang kabinataang dinaladalangin, Siyang tatawagan, aking ituturing Yaring...
Excerpt: Rizal: - Ako ay iniwan.... Hindi na inisip, Ang nagsisiluhang Ina at kapatid, Nagpasasang lahat sumimsim ng tamis Ng pagliliwaliw.... at kami...
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40,43 zł |
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I Too Have Some Dreams: N.M. Rashed and Modernism in Urdu Poetry
ISBN: 9780520283107 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India and the early decades of postcolonial South Asia. A. Sean Pue argues that Rashed's poetry carved out a distinct role for literature in the maintenance of doubt, providing a platform for challenging the certainty of collective ideologies and opposing the evolving forms of empire and domination. This finely crafted study offers a timely contribution to global modernist studies and to modern South Asian literary history.
I Too Have Some Dreams explores the work of N. M. Rashed, Urdu's renowned modernist poet, whose career spans the last years of British India an...
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303,56 zł |
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Selected Works of D.T. Suzuki, Volume I: Zen
ISBN: 9780520269194 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the first time through his writings and teaching, and for nearly a century his work and legacy have contributed to the ongoing religious and cultural interchange between Japan and the rest of the world, particularly the United States and Europe. Selected Works of D. T. Suzuki gathers the full range of Suzuki s writingsboth classic essays and lesser-known but equally significant articles. This first volume in the series presents a collection of...
Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki was a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many outside of Japan encountered Buddhism for the fi...
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257,25 zł |
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Gerry Gil Writings: Editorials & Articles
ISBN: 9781499601718 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,66 zł |
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Reflections: Covering Life
ISBN: 9781453689776 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. About the Author + + + Bert Guiang hails from Tampo, Botolan, Zambales, Philippines. He was a freshman at the Philippine Normal College in the Manila when his grandfather Papo Ake (Dalmacio Guiang) saw the U S Navy recruiting advertisement in the Manila Times. He just turned 18 when he was inducted into the US Navy at Sangley Point in Cavite City. He first saw services as a black shoe sailor on a Destroyer and a Patrol Gunboat and later on switched to a Seabee Rating, the Construction Arm of the United States Navy. He retired as an Engineering Aide Chief Petty Officer. In addition to the two...
About the Author + + + Bert Guiang hails from Tampo, Botolan, Zambales, Philippines. He was a freshman at the Philippine Normal College in the Manila ...
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57,66 zł |
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