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Imagining Indianness: Cultural Identity and Literature
ISBN: 9783319410142 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions related to the interpretation of the Indian past and present, the meanings of ancient and venerated cultural symbols in ancient times and modern, while discussing the ideological implications of the... This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural i... |
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342,14 |
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Reading the Past Across Space and Time: Receptions and World Literature
ISBN: 9781137565433 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West).
Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Jap...
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301,89 |
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Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction: Gender, Narration and Globalisation
ISBN: 9781137403049 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women's fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors' distinct subcontinental backgrounds of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka - as well as India - this study destabilises the central place given to fiction focused on India. It broadens the customary...
This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Ana...
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322,01 |
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A Prehistory of Hinduism
ISBN: 9783110517361 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between the eleventh and the nineteenth century with class relations as its point of focus, it throws new light on the making of religious communities, monastic institutions, legends, lineages, and the ethics that governed them. In the light of this prehistory, a compelling framework is suggested for a revision of existing perspectives on the making of Hinduism in the nineteenth and the twentieth century.
This book is a pioneering attempt to understand the prehistory of Hinduism in South Asia. Exploring religious processes in the Deccan region between t...
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140,02 |
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Nishimura Kyōtarō e il suo 'Mystery del viaggio'
ISBN: 9783668250758 / Włoski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Asia, grade: 30/30, language: Italian, abstract: Il mystery e un genere molto diffuso e apprezzato in Giappone. Gli scrittori giapponesi che possono essere definiti autori di mystery, di successo o meno, sono effettivamente molti, come conferma l'alto numero di vendite di tali racconti. Gli autori che acquistano fama e riconoscimenti, ottenendo un posto tra i grandi nomi della letteratura poliziesca, sono in continua crescita. Un nome molto conosciuto in Giappone e poco diffuso all'estero e quello di Nishimura Ky tar, esempio...
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Asia, grade: 30/30, language: Italian, abstract: Il mystery e un genere molto diffuso e a...
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165,49 |
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural (164 Short Stories)
ISBN: 9780804849081 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century. These tales of ghosts, magic, vampirism, and other things bizarre and fantastic are an excellent Chinese companion to Lafcadio Hearn's well-known collections of Japanese ghost stories Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. Already a true classic of Chinese literature and of supernatural tales in general, this new edition of the Herbert A. Giles...
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales c...
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77,03 |
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The Verse of Shao Xunmei
ISBN: 9781622460236 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first English translation of the verse by the forgotten Shanghai poet Shao Xunmei (1906-1968). As a student at Cambridge, young Shao fell under the spell of poets like Gautier, Baudelaire and Verlaine, but above all the Englishman A.C. Swinburne. Back in Shanghai, Shao led a group of Western-influenced writers and artists who wanted to create a new culture for their country. Shao not only combined East and West in his life and art, but also turned his life into his art and vice-versa.
Shao Xunmei was the epitome of a movement in 1930s Shanghai that aimed to reinvigorate the... This is the first English translation of the verse by the forgotten Shanghai poet Shao Xunmei (1906-1968). As a student at Cambridge, young Shao fell ...
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120,63 |
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The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 Bce-900ce)
ISBN: 9780199356591 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that shaped literary production and textual transmission? How do traditional bibliographic categories, modern conceptions of genre, and literary theories shape our understanding of classical Chinese literature? What are the recurrent and evolving concerns of writings within the period under purview?...
This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic quest...
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760,29 |
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Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader
ISBN: 9780231181006 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres--novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children's story, one-act play, three-act play, and roundtable discussion. This anthology moves beyond the usual "representative works" to provide a well-rounded selection of writing by one of Korea's most innovative...
Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by ...
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453,68 |
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Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader
ISBN: 9780231181013 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by his distinctive voice and colloquial style. Sunset: A Ch'ae Manshik Reader is the first English-language anthology of his works and features a variety of genres--novella, short fiction, anecdotal essay, travel writing, children's story, one-act play, three-act play, and roundtable discussion. This anthology moves beyond the usual "representative works" to provide a well-rounded selection of writing by one of Korea's most innovative...
Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by ...
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144,35 |
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New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry
ISBN: 9781936797240 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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78,36 |
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Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English
ISBN: 9781138162990 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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710,17 |
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Journey to the West: XI You Ji
ISBN: 9781539848714 / Chiński / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,98 |
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Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora
ISBN: 9781783482627 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Theoretical work in diaspora studies often concludes that nostalgia must be an idealizing, conservative form of memory so it has been marginalized within the field in favour of hybridity. But what radical possibilities might exist in the construction of coherent and fixed forms of diasporic identity? Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora examines diasporic life in south Asian communities in the US and the UK to map the ways in which members of these communities use nostalgia to construct distinctive identities. The book looks at literature, television...
Theoretical work in diaspora studies often concludes that nostalgia must be an idealizing, conservative form of memory so it has been marginalized wit...
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533,85 |
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Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi
ISBN: 9781933947471 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume--A Woman Writer's Sense of Self, Utopian Verses, and Years of Sadness--explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her...
This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highligh...
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111,75 |
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Lost and Found and Other Essays
ISBN: 9789715426343 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2005 Rica Bolipata-Santos lost her father, suffered from her son's worsening condition, and discovered salvation in writing. In 2007, she won the Madrigal-Gonzalez Best First Book Award for her first collection of essays. In Lost and Found, Bolipata-Santos continues travelling the terrain of the mundane and domestic, still unafraid to find gravitas in the tiniest of experiences.
In 2005 Rica Bolipata-Santos lost her father, suffered from her son's worsening condition, and discovered salvation in writing. In 2007, she won the M...
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53,82 |
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Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines
ISBN: 9789715426725 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the American colonization of the Philippines from three distinct but related literary perspectives: that of anti-imperialist American writers Mark Twain, W.E.B. DuBois, and William James; American authors whose work was used to inculcate American values in the colonial education system; and early Filipino writers Paz Marquez Benitez, Maximo Kalaw, and Juan C. Laya.
Examines the American colonization of the Philippines from three distinct but related literary perspectives: that of anti-imperialist American writers...
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73,42 |
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Twenty-One Grams of Spirit and Seven Ounces of Desire
ISBN: 9789715506021 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tries to make the case, through sixty-four pieces, that while measure is not meaning, it helps shape it. This collection captures the struggle to make sense of measures that science is known for and goes further by speculating on what they could mean in our lives, and not just in the closeted halls of science labs and institutions.
Tries to make the case, through sixty-four pieces, that while measure is not meaning, it helps shape it. This collection captures the struggle to make...
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151,83 |
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Gender and Criminality in Bangla Crime Narratives: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9781137515971 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely focus on gender.
This book examines diverse literary writings in Bangla related to crime in late nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Bengal, with a timely ...
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402,53 |
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Reichtum Begraben: Aushandlungsprozesse Kostspieliger Bestattungspraxis in China Zwischen Religionspolitik Und Religionsökonomie
ISBN: 9783110529661 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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594,70 |
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