Buddhist Tales of India, China, and Japan: Chinese Section
ISBN: 9780917880070 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish?, the largest story collection in Japan, dating from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand tales of India, China, and Japan.
Provides translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish?, the largest story collection in Japa...
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The Routledge Companion to International Children S Literature
ISBN: 9781138778061 / Angielski / Twarda / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children's literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia, Africa, and Latin America, the collection raises awareness of children's literature and related media as they exist in large regions of the world to which 'mainstream' European and North American scholarship pays very little attention.
Sections cover: -... Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of children's literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to ... |
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1093,76 zł |
Vulnerability and Security in Human Rights Literature and Visual Culture
ISBN: 9781138860278 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book responds to the failures of human rights-the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions-through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on theories of vulnerability, precarity, and dispossession to argue for the necessity of recognizing the embodied and material contexts of human rights subjects. At the same time, she demonstrates how these theories run the risk of reproducing the structural imbalances that lie at the core of critiques of... This book responds to the failures of human rights-the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions-throu... |
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737,66 zł |
Buddhist Tales of India, China, and Japan: Japanese Section
ISBN: 9780917880087 / Angielski / Miękka / 1194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish, the largest story collection in Japan, dating from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand tales of India, China, and Japan.
Contains translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish, the largest story collection in Japan...
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428,38 zł |
Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary
ISBN: 9780520286467 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan "Brahman" (d. c.1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan's life spanned the reigns of four different emperors, Akbar (1556-1605), Jahangir (1605-1627), Shah Jahan (1628-1658), and Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (1658-1707),...
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. V...
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160,65 zł |
Handbook of Japanese Syntax
ISBN: 9781614517672 / Angielski / Twarda / 894 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad. More recently, Japanese has been among the languages most intensely studied within modern linguistic theories such as Generative Grammar and Cognitive/Functional Linguistics over the past fifty years. This volume presents a comprehensive survey of Japanese syntax from these three research strands, namely studies based on the traditional research methods developed in Japan, those from broader functional perspectives, and those couched in the... Studies of Japanese syntax have played a central role in the long history of Japanese linguistics spanning more than 250 years in Japan and abroad.... |
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Stories to Caution the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 2
ISBN: 9780295996400 / Angielski / Twarda / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong's three collections of stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, generals, and a gallery of ordinary men and women in their everyday surroundings -- merchants and artisans, prostitutes... Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong's three collections of storie... |
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478,20 zł |
Monolingualism and Linguistic Exhibitionism in Fiction
ISBN: 9781137340351 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction, making a case for an emerging transparent-turn in which momentary multilingualism works in the service of long-term monolingualism.
How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of c...
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The Poetry of British India, 1780-1905 Vol 2: 1834-1905
ISBN: 9781138762145 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.
This two-volume reset edition draws together a selection of Anglo-Indian poetry from the Romantic era and the nineteenth century.
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A Garden of Marvels: Tales of Wonder from Early Medieval China
ISBN: 9780824853501 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, customs, and flora and fauna in distant lands. Some depicted individuals of unusual spiritual or moral achievement. But most told of ordinary people's encounters with ghosts, demons, or gods; sojourns in the land of the dead; eerily significant dreams; and uncannily accurate premonitions. The selection of such stories presented here provides an alluring introduction to early medieval Chinese storytelling and opens a doorway to the enchanted world of... Between 300 and 600 C.E., Chinese writers compiled thousands of accounts of the strange and the extraordinary. Some described weird spirits, custom... |
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Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader - Volume 2
ISBN: 9789814719520 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism.In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume...
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these na...
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763,09 zł |
Christentum, Religion, Identitaet: Ein Thema Der Modernen Japanischen Literatur
ISBN: 9783631358290 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Arbeit untersucht die -spirituelle Kultur- der japanischen Moderne. Christentum, Zen, Spiritismus und Vitalismus sind Bezugspunkte, von denen Antworten fur einen Ausweg aus der geistigen Krise erwartet werden, die die japanischen Intellektuellen um 1900 konstatieren. Wie der Westen durchleidet Japan die -Schmerzen der Modernisierung-. Man trachtet dem Raderwerk der Maschinenzivilisation zu entkommen und sucht sein Heil bei den alten Gottern, den Geistern, oder in einer neuen Religiositat. Stellvertretend fur die Menschen der Moderne formuliert der Kappa, ein Wasserkobold, aus Akutagawa...
Die Arbeit untersucht die -spirituelle Kultur- der japanischen Moderne. Christentum, Zen, Spiritismus und Vitalismus sind Bezugspunkte, von denen Antw...
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364,78 zł |
Imagining India
ISBN: 9781349203390 / Angielski / Miękka / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated within the language of a far-off European country. It explores the work of writers from Kipling to Salman Rushdie, Ghandhi to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
This book investigates what happens to the English language when it seeks to accommodate India and what happens to India when it is accommodated withi...
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585,00 zł |
Li Mengyang, the North-South Divide, and Literati Learning in Ming China
ISBN: 9780674970595 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Li Mengyang (1473-1530) was a scholar-official and man of letters who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient styles of prose and poetry in sixteenth-century China. In this first book-length study of Li in English, Chang Woei Ong comprehensively examines his intellectual scheme and situates Li's quest to redefine literati learning as a way to build a perfect social order in the context of intellectual transitions since the Song dynasty. Ong examines Li's emergence at the distinctive historical juncture of the mid-Ming dynasty, when differences in... Li Mengyang (1473-1530) was a scholar-official and man of letters who initiated the literary archaist movement that sought to restore ancient style... |
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Fukushima and the Arts: Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
ISBN: 9781138670587 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the first in-depth explorations of the cultural responses to the devastating tsunami, and in particular the ongoing nuclear disaster of Fukushima. This book explores a wide range of cultural responses to the Fukushima nuclear calamity by analyzing examples from literature, poetry, manga, theatre,... The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japane... |
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712,22 zł |
Generationenverhältnisse in Deutschland und China
ISBN: 9783110488715 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major changes in norms and values are occurring in contemporary Germany and China, especially in younger generations. Yet intergenerational relations, experiences of time, and characteristics of aging are also in flux. Focusing on Germany and China as well as moments of societal crisis in the 20th century, this book provides an initial description and historical analysis of generational relations and their representations in art and the media. Major changes in norms and values are occurring in contemporary Germany and China, especially in younger generations. Yet intergenerational relatio... |
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370,30 zł |
Metaphor and Diaspora in Contemporary Writing
ISBN: 9781349339563 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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194,97 zł |
Debating Orientalism
ISBN: 9781349338177 / Angielski / Miękka / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix of perspectives to an ongoing polemic. Contributors from a range of disciplines take stock of the book's impact and appraise its significance in contemporary cultural politics and philosophy.
Edward Said continues to fascinate and stir controversy, nowhere more than with his classic work Orientalism. Debating Orientalism brings a rare mix o...
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Metaphor and Iconicity: A Cognitive Approach to Analyzing Texts
ISBN: 9781349516674 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Metaphor and Iconicity attempts to clarify the interplay of metaphor and iconicity in the creation and interpretation of spoken and written texts from a cognitive perspective. There are various degrees in which metaphor and iconicity manifest themselves, ranging from sound symbolism and parallelism in poetic discourse to word order, inflectional forms, and other grammatical structures in ordinary discourse. The book makes unique contributions to the study of the relationship of form and meaning.
Metaphor and Iconicity attempts to clarify the interplay of metaphor and iconicity in the creation and interpretation of spoken and written texts from...
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389,98 zł |
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry: Icons, Markets, Mythologies
ISBN: 9781349444885 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic bestsellers as new globalization strategies that connect postcolonial artworks to the market place.
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural indust...
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194,97 zł |