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Pearl from the Dragon's Mouth: Evocation of Scene and Feeling in Chinese Poetryvolume 67
ISBN: 9780892641109 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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252,36 |
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Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction: Short Stories and Novellas from the People's Republic, Taiwan and Hong Kong
ISBN: 9780873327589 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions.
This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity pro...
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237,10 |
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
ISBN: 9780231150644 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage. Despite its centrality to literary and intellectual traditions, the Ainkurunuru remains relatively unknown beyond specialists. Martha Ann Selby,...
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poet...
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453,68 |
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American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era Through the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781558498792 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this book explains why the Orient had a fundamentally different meaning in the United States than in Europe or Great Britain. David Weir argues that unlike their European counterparts, Americans did not treat the East simply as a site of imperialist adventure; on the contrary, colonial subjugation was an experience that early Americans shared with the peoples of China and India. In eighteenth-century America, the East was, paradoxically, a means of reinforcing the enlightenment values of the West:... Surveying the American fascination with the Far East since the mid-eighteenth century, this book explains why the Orient had a fundamentally differ... |
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137,09 |
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Man'yōshū (Book 5): A New Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary
ISBN: 9781906876203 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, ten choka), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some of them can be classified as benka, since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese. The volume has several long introductions (all written in Chinese) to the poems that follow. All the poems in this volume were composed between AD 724 and 733, which represents a much greater homogeneity in comparison to books one to four. Most of the poems were written by Yamanoue-no...
This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, ten choka), traditionally considered t...
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518,42 |
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Postcolonial Theories
ISBN: 9780230243026 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postcolonial Theories is a lively introduction to postcolonial theories, contexts and literatures which presents both the theory and practice to students in approachable and attractive ways. Jenni Ramone includes discussion of a wide range of influential theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Edward Said, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Paul Gilroy and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She also demonstrates postcolonial ideas through compelling readings of a wide range of exciting literary texts, including: -Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile -Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger -Shyam Selvadurai's Funny...
Postcolonial Theories is a lively introduction to postcolonial theories, contexts and literatures which presents both the theory and practice to stude...
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489,77 |
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Modern Korean Drama: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780231149471 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during a time of rapid social and historical change. Stretching from 1962 to 2004, these seven works tackle major subjects, such as the close of the Choson dynasty and the aftermath of the Korean War, while delving into trenchant cultural issues, such as the marginalization of students who rebel against mainstream education and the role of traditional values in a materialistic society. Longtime scholar of Korea and its vibrant, politically acute...
Carefully selected and represented, the plays in this collection showcase both the fantastic and the realistic innovations of Korean dramatists during...
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189,72 |
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The Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Zen and Religion of No-Religion
ISBN: 9780231150224 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text of the eighth century, rediscovered in 1900 at the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang. The only remaining artifact of the Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, the text provides a fascinating sectarian history of Chinese Buddhism intended to showcase the iconoclastic teachings of Bao Tang founder Chan Master Wuzhu (714-774). Wendi Adamek not only brings Master Wuzhu's experimental community to life but also situates his paradigm-shifting teachings within the history of Buddhist thought....
The Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text of the eighth century, redisco...
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515,55 |
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Teachings of Master Wuzhu: Islamic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780231150231 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text of the eighth century, rediscovered in 1900 at the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang. The only remaining artifact of the Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, the text provides a fascinating sectarian history of Chinese Buddhism intended to showcase the iconoclastic teachings of Bao Tang founder Chan Master Wuzhu (714-774). Wendi Adamek not only brings Master Wuzhu's experimental community to life but also situates his paradigm-shifting teachings within the history of Buddhist thought....
The Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text of the eighth century, redisco...
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154,67 |
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A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and Its Empires
ISBN: 9780748644827 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Regional Editors: John Beverley, Charles Forsdick, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Theo D'haen, Lars Jensen, Birthe Kundrus, Elizabeth Monasterios, Phillip Rothwell. Your complete reference to the postcolonial literatures of Continental European Empires. Written by expert scholars in the fields of postcolonial studies, the entries cover major events, ideas, movements and figures in postcolonial histories. The entries range from the first European overseas the first explorations, settlements and colonies right up to decolonisation. They highlight the relevance of colonial histories...
Regional Editors: John Beverley, Charles Forsdick, Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Theo D'haen, Lars Jensen, Birthe Kundrus, Elizabeth Monas...
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166,48 |
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Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing
ISBN: 9780230314221 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this is the result: a timely reassertion of metaphor's unrivalled capacity to encompass sameness and difference and create understanding and empathy across boundaries of nationality, race and ethnicity.
Choose ten major contemporary diasporic writers (from Abdulrazak to Zadie), ask ten leading authorities to write about their use of metaphor, and this...
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201,24 |
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Red Azalea
ISBN: 9780824812560 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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308,55 |
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Instances: Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781602352346 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Korea's most exacting and innovative poets, Choi creates environments at once familiar but dreamlike, marked by a preternatural clarity. His poetry possesses a highly suggestive, allusive intensity that locates the startling within the familiar.
One of Korea's most exacting and innovative poets, Choi creates environments at once familiar but dreamlike, marked by a preternatural clarity. His po...
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Das Konzept des Körpers bei modernen japanischen Schriftstellerinnen am Beispiel von Kôno Taekos "Knabenjagd"
ISBN: 9783640632701 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Asien, Note: 1,0, Universitat Leipzig (Zentrum fur Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung), Veranstaltung: Genderkompetenzen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: So vielfaltig die Erfahrungen sind, mit denen unser Korper jeden Tag aufs Neue konfrontiert wird, so sind es auch die feministischen Theorien, die sich mit den Aspekten des Korpers auseinandersetzen. Der Korper kann zu einem Schlachtfeld werden, auf dem Natur und Kultur aufeinander treffen. Wer "Korper" sagt, spricht auch immer von Fleisch und Blut, und deutet auf unser...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Asien, Note: 1,0, Universitat Leipzig (Zentrum fur Frauen- und Geschlechterfors...
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147,68 |
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Diaspora and Multiculturalism: Common Traditions and New Developments
ISBN: 9789042009165 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In postcolonial theory we have now reached a new stage in the succession of key concepts. After the celebrations of hybridity in the work of Homi Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak, it is now the concept of diaspora that has sparked animated debates among postcolonial critics. This collection intervenes in the current discussion about the 'new' diaspora by placing the rise of diaspora within the politics of multiculturalism and its supercession by a politics of difference and cultural-rights theory. The essays present recent developments in Jewish negotiations of diasporic tradition and experience,...
In postcolonial theory we have now reached a new stage in the succession of key concepts. After the celebrations of hybridity in the work of Homi Bhab...
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679,90 |
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Literary Research and Postcolonial Literatures in English: Strategies and Sources
ISBN: 9780810883833 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In previous volumes of this series, the research literature of former British colonies Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand have been addressed. This volume offers guidance for those researching the postcolonial literature of the former British colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and South Asia. Among the forty nations represented in this volume are South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ghana, Jamaica, Swaziland, Belize, and Namibia. With the exception...
Postcolonial literatures can be defined as the body of creative work written by authors whose lands were formerly subjugated to colonial rule. In prev...
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372,23 |
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The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9780415617048 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding's own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding's well-known and important statements on literature, society and morals, as well as many which are now difficult to obtain. The selection presents the full range of Fielding's criticism, showing the relations between his statements concerning literature and his...
First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding's criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs ...
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244,84 |
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Indonesia Journal: October 2010
ISBN: 9780877278900 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published by Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program since April 1966, the journal provides area scholars and interested readers with contemporary analysis of Indonesia and an extensive archive of research pertaining to the nation and region.
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia's culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features o...
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117,50 |
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Descriptive Grammar of Bangla
ISBN: 9781614513025 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With almost 200 million native speakers, Bangla ranks among the top ten languages in the world in number of speakers; yet despite its status as a major world language and its rich and lengthy literary tradition, it remains under-described. Accessible to both linguists and learners, the CASL Bangla grammar offers plentiful examples with native orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing to illustrate the various features of the language. It also includes comparative information of use to linguists, and highlights major morphological differences between West Bengali... With almost 200 million native speakers, Bangla ranks among the top ten languages in the world in number of speakers; yet despite its status as a m... |
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594,70 |
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Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and its Dialects
ISBN: 9781614513032 / Angielski / Twarda / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spoken by as many as 50 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Pashto comprises a range of widely diverging varieties. The Center for Advanced Study of Language Pashto Grammar provides a description of the language that is supported by examples presented in native orthography, Roman transcription, morpheme-by-morpheme glossing, and translation. It is designed as a primary reference work for both linguists and students of Pashto. "Spoken by as many as 50 million people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Pashto comprises a range of widely diverging varieties. The Center for Advanced... |
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