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For Nirvana: 108 Zen Sijo Poems
ISBN: 9780231179904 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, and has lived in retreat in the mountains since becoming a novice monk at the age of seven. Writing under the Buddhist name Musan, he has composed hundreds of poems in seclusion, many in the sijo style, a relatively fixed syllabic poetic form similar to Japanese haiku and tanka. For Nirvana contains 108 Zen sijo poems (108 representing the number of klesas, or "defilements," that one must overcome to attain...
For Nirvana features exceptional examples of the poet Cho Oh-Hyun's award-winning work. Cho Oh-Hyun was born in Miryang, South Gyeongsang Provi...
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380,00 zł |
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Reading Postcolonial Theory: Key texts in context
ISBN: 9781138181922 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the moments of their making and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises it in the wake of contemporary themes and debates. The volume:
This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the moments of their making and de... |
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773,57 zł |
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Ezra Pound's Cathay
ISBN: 9780691621739 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound's principles of translation to his late pre-Raphaelite background, and shows in considerable detail his techniques in translating the Cathay poems. Originally published in 1969. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished... Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from... |
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246,34 zł |
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Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2): A Reference Guide, Part Two
ISBN: 9789004192409 / Angielski / Twarda / 674 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when...
At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early s...
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956,64 zł |
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Translations of Eastern Poetry and Prose
ISBN: 9781107631922 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1922, this book presents translations from about fifty authors of Arabic and Persian works. The selection is chiefly comprised of poetry and prose literature, but extracts are also included from biographers and historians. The extracts, which are mostly short and seldom run for longer than five pages, cover the period from the beginning of the sixth to the end of the fifteenth century AD. Illustrative figures and textual notes are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Arabic and Persian literature.
Originally published in 1922, this book presents translations from about fifty authors of Arabic and Persian works. The selection is chiefly comprised...
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222,82 zł |
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Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures
ISBN: 9781783480142 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond the traditionalist, conservative concerns of the academy which have, until relatively recently, foreclosed the use of "Western" theory in the study of Thai literature. The book introduces new frames of analysis to the study of Thai literature to bring it into dialogue with debates in wider fields and...
Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field ...
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358,22 zł |
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Between Love and Freedom: The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel
ISBN: 9781138019768 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Between Love and Freedom' interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It reveals how conventional social realism and emergent modernist modes were brought together in the novelistic tradition by extending the political ideal of anti-colonial revolution into domains of sexual desire and subjective expression, especially in the works of Agyeya, Jainendra, and Yashpal. This work will deeply interest scholars and...
'Between Love and Freedom' interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels,...
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670,43 zł |
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Disturbing Conventions: Decentering Thai Literary Cultures
ISBN: 9781783480135 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field of comparative and world literature. Predominantly penned by Thai academics, the collection decentres Thai literary studies in order to move beyond the traditionalist, conservative concerns of the academy which have, until relatively recently, foreclosed the use of "Western" theory in the study of Thai literature. The book introduces new frames of analysis to the study of Thai literature to bring it into dialogue with debates in wider fields and...
Disturbing Conventions draws the study of Thai literature out of the relative isolation that has to date impeded its participation in the wider field ...
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1092,92 zł |
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Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan
ISBN: 9783631399385 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Image, Text and Audience is the first book dealing with paintings related to Taishokan, the most popular ballad-drama of the 16th century. Key narrative elements in the story include the transmission of a magic jewel from China to Japan and the succession of the Fujiwara family. The narrative provided motifs for historical accounts, Buddhist proselytising texts, a no play, puppet theatre plays, and satirical novels of the 18th century. This lavishly illustrated book is of interest to scholars of various disciplines including art history, literature, and religious studies....
Image, Text and Audience is the first book dealing with paintings related to Taishokan, the most popular ballad-drama of the 16th centur...
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377,29 zł |
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Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
ISBN: 9781433105357 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical overview of Chinese theatre from the 1980s to the present. Expressionism becomes a discursive locus to be incorporated and even transformed during a critical phase in the modernization of Chinese drama during the post-Maoist era.
Six leading Chinese dramatists (Gao Xingjian, Lin Zhaohua, Huang Zuolin, Xu Xiaozhong, Meng Jinghui, and Stan Lai) are clear representatives of opening up a new world of modern Chinese drama. They embody each of the... Expressionism and Its Deformation in Contemporary Chinese Theatre provides both rigorous readings of dramatic works as well as a historical ove...
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436,40 zł |
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Literature and Film in Cold War South Korea: Freedom's Frontier
ISBN: 9780231157490 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of new modes and media that emerged in the early twentieth century, these artists sought subtle strategies for representing the realities of colonialism and global modernity. Theodore Hughes begins by unpacking the relations among literature, film, and art in Korea's colonial period, paying particular attention to the emerging proletarian movement, literary modernism, nativism, and wartime mobilization. He then demonstrates how these developments...
Korean writers and filmmakers crossed literary and visual cultures in multilayered ways under Japanese colonial rule (1910-1945). Taking advantage of ...
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152,00 zł |
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The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan
ISBN: 9780231165761 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; transcripts of historical speeches and conferences; literary-society manifestos and inaugural journal prefaces; and governmental policy pronouncements that have significantly influenced Taiwanese...
This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the...
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380,00 zł |
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Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation
ISBN: 9780415736299 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic research and interviews, it traces the trajectory of modern Dalit writing in Hindi and its pivotal role in the creation, rise and reinforcement of a distinctive Dalit identity. The book challenges the existing impression of Hindi Dalit literature as stemming from the Dalit political assertion of the 1980s and as being chiefly imitative of the Marathi Dalit literature model. Arguing that Hindi Dalit literature has a much longer history in north India,...
This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic resear...
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670,43 zł |
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Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance
ISBN: 9789004222052 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, Jin Feng examines the evolution of Chinese popular romance on the Internet. She first provides a brief genealogy of Chinese Web literature and Chinese popular romance, and then investigates how large socio-cultural forces have shaped new writing and reading practices and created new subgenres of popular romance in contemporary China. Integrating ethnographic methods into literary and discursive analyses, Feng offers a gendered, audience-oriented study of Chinese popular culture in the age of the Internet.
In Romancing the Internet: Producing and Consuming Chinese Web Romance, Jin Feng examines the evolution of Chinese popular romance on the Inter...
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525,72 zł |
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Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the Us and Pakistan: Spies and Terrorists
ISBN: 9780415684514 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title analyses a variety of US and Pakistani novels and films since 9/11 and focuses on how such fictions construct an understanding of history through the portrayal of two stock characters in the espionage genre: the spy and the spy's nemesis, who, in this context, is the religious extremist or fundamentalist.
This title analyses a variety of US and Pakistani novels and films since 9/11 and focuses on how such fictions construct an understanding of history t...
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773,57 zł |
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Made in Japan and Other Japanese Business Novels
ISBN: 9780873325295 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The seven business novels translated in this collection represent a genre in Japan, keizai-shosetsu, that is extremely popular among Japanese businessmen, their wives, students, and other professionals. It is aimed at students and business counterparts in the West.
The seven business novels translated in this collection represent a genre in Japan, keizai-shosetsu, that is extremely popular among Japanese business...
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773,57 zł |
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Review of Contemporary Fiction: VIII, #3: Novelist as Critic
ISBN: 9781564781116 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George Garrett, "'Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More': The Publishing Scene and American Literary Art"/John Barth, "Postmodernism Revisited"/Gilbert Sorrentino, "Writing and Writers: Disjecta Membra"/David Foster Wallace, "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young"/Claude Ollier, "Conflictual Inscriptions"/Christine Brooke-Rose, "Ill Locutions"/Robert Creeley, "Thinking of You"/Harry Mathews, "Notes on the Threshold of a Book"/Harry Mathews, "Les Marveilleux Nuages"/Robert Kelly, "Poundian Romance: Investigating Thomas McEvilley's Novel, North of Yesterday"/Keith Abbott,...
George Garrett, "'Once More unto the Breach, Dear Friends, Once More': The Publishing Scene and American Literary Art"/John Barth, "Postmodernism Revi...
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35,28 zł |
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Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo's Classic Novel
ISBN: 9781623569839 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as "Japan's Graham Greene," and Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship... Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as "Japan's Graham Greene," and Silence is considered b... |
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180,44 zł |
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Light On The Path: and Through the Gates of Gold
ISBN: 9781480119208 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present edition of LIGHT ON THE PATH is a verbatim reprint of the 1888 edition (George Redway, London) in which later edition the NOTES by the Author first appear. The COMMENTS, which are not in the 1888 edition, are here taken directly from Lucifer, Volume I, 1887-8, where they were first published. Also in this volume we reprint verbatim the original edition (1887) of THROUGH THE GATES OF GOLD by the same Author, together with a commentary by William Q. Judge taken from his magazine, The Path, March, 1887.
The present edition of LIGHT ON THE PATH is a verbatim reprint of the 1888 edition (George Redway, London) in which later edition the NOTES by the Aut...
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70,57 zł |
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Modern Korean Literature: An Anthology 1908-65
ISBN: 9780710304902 / Angielski / Twarda / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains 30 stories selected on the basis of historical interest and literary worth. Each represents an important moment in the history of Korean literature: the Korean experience of the confrontation between man and woman; the old Korean way of life; and modern Korea in the process of change.
Contains 30 stories selected on the basis of historical interest and literary worth. Each represents an important moment in the history of Korean lite...
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696,20 zł |
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