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The Quatrains of Omar Khayyam: Three translations of the Rubaiyat
ISBN: 9780974566719 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyam needs to read more than one translation. This volume contains Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation with all its variations, Justin McCarthy's elegant and mystical literal translation and Richard Le Gallienne's sharp and poetic version. For the first time the reader can appreciate the range of Omar Khayyam and his interpreters in a single volume."
Though few translations have had as much impact as Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, anyone who wishes to truly appreciate Omar Khayyam ne...
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88,06 zł |
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Colonial Karma: The Problem of Action in the Indian English Novel
ISBN: 9781403964007 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colonial Karma tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present, each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment. Linking the novel's development with that of Indian cultural nationalism, it argues that nationalism seeks to solve the problem of action for its middle class subject by redefining the Bhagavad Gita's concept of karma for political purposes. Two figures serve to exemplify this problem: Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita and Saleem in Midnight's Children. After considering influential early novels in Indian languages, Colonial Karma discusses novels in...
Colonial Karma tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present, each chapter focusing on a particular historical moment. Link...
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195,42 zł |
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The History of Indian Literature
ISBN: 9781410203342 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The literature of India is one of the most ancient (along with Egyptian and Assyrian) literatures of which we possess written records. Indian literature divides itself into two great periods, the Vedic and the Sanskrit.
The literature of India is one of the most ancient (along with Egyptian and Assyrian) literatures of which we possess written records. Indian literatu...
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78,23 zł |
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A History of Sanskrit Literature
ISBN: 9781410211699 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A classic work on the history of Sanskrit. Invaluable for the student of linguistics and philology. The work represents a complete history of Sanskrit literature in a condensed and succinct form. It embodies a general study of the Vedic, Epic, Puranic, classical and philosophical literature. It sheds light on the life and thought of Ancient and Medieval India as reflected in the literary productions of those periods. It provides information both interesting and instructive. Even with the lapse of time, the utility of this small work has not diminished.This title is cited and recommended by:...
A classic work on the history of Sanskrit. Invaluable for the student of linguistics and philology. The work represents a complete history of Sanskrit...
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168,78 zł |
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A History of Sanskrit Literature
ISBN: 9781596053106 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among all the ancient literatures, that of India is... undoubtedly in intrinsic value and aesthetic merit second only to that of Greece. -from the Introduction It is the oldest recognized language on the planet-indeed, Sanskrit was considered the language of the gods by ancient Indians. This is perhaps the first truly accessible volume ever published on the literature of the grand philosophers and poets of ancient India, and its power and importance has not diminished since it first appeared in 1900. This compact yet comprehensive overview of Sanskrit works covers the Rigveda, the Sutras, the...
Among all the ancient literatures, that of India is... undoubtedly in intrinsic value and aesthetic merit second only to that of Greece. -from the Int...
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122,25 zł |
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Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World : Modern Essays in Criticism
ISBN: 9781843310990 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed as a companion to Rabindranath Tagore's 'Ghare-Baire' (The Home and the World), the ten essays in this volume cover the novel in terms of the complexity of colonial modernity. Taking into account Tagore's critique of religious nationalism and the historical processes, in which the novel is embedded, the authors examine questions of gender, nationalism and the novel form. Issues of gender such as the creations of modern selfhood, the problems of representing the woman as the nation and the crises of masculinity are discussed. Similarly, Tagore's critique of Hindu nationalism is... Designed as a companion to Rabindranath Tagore's 'Ghare-Baire' (The Home and the World), the ten essays in this volume cover the novel in terms of ... |
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668,08 zł |
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Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World : Modern Essays in Criticism
ISBN: 9781843311003 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designed as a companion to Rabindranath Tagore's 'Ghare-Baire' (The Home and the World), the ten essays in this volume cover the novel in terms of the complexity of colonial modernity. Taking into account Tagore's critique of religious nationalism and the historical processes, in which the novel is embedded, the authors examine questions of gender, nationalism and the novel form. Issues of gender such as the creations of modern selfhood, the problems of representing the woman as the nation and the crises of masculinity are discussed. Similarly, Tagore's critique of Hindu nationalism is... Designed as a companion to Rabindranath Tagore's 'Ghare-Baire' (The Home and the World), the ten essays in this volume cover the novel in terms of ... |
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143,92 zł |
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The Laghukatha
ISBN: 9783110175936 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has been published since the 1970s in Hindi newspapers and magazines and is characterised by its concise form (500 words on average) and socio-political agenda. The importance of the genre within the Hindi literary scene lies in the fact that the laghukathā is based on indigenous genres which have been modernised, whereas the Hindi short story and the novel are Western genres that have been appropriated and Indianised. A thorough... The book presented here is the first work of Western literary criticism to examine the Hindi laghukathā - a modern Indian prose genre that has... |
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698,83 zł |
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The Sanskrit Epics
ISBN: 9789004102606 / Angielski / Twarda / 612 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mahābhārata (including Harivaṃśa) and Rāmāyaṇa, the two great Sanskrit Epics central to the whole of Indian Culture, form the subject of this new work. The book begins by examining the relationship of the epics to the Vedas and the role of the bards who produced them. The core of the work, a study of the linguistic and stylistic features of the epics, precedes the examination of the material culture, the social, economic and political aspects, and the religious aspects. The final chapter presents the wider picture and in conclusion...
Mahābhārata (including Harivaṃśa) and Rāmāyaṇa, the two great Sanskrit Epics central to the ...
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930,60 zł |
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Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English
ISBN: 9780415402958 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of Midnight�s Children, A Suitable Boy, The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses, Neelam Srivastava investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel. The book traces the breakdown of the Nehruvian secular consensus between 1975 and 2005...
This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and...
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760,80 zł |
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Strī: Women in Epic Mahābhārata
ISBN: 9780674031982 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the role of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them.
This volume is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the role of wife, daughter-in-law, and ...
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115,71 zł |
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Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity: Gandhi, Nehru and Iqbal
ISBN: 9781403985958 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in formulating the complex tie between interiority and nationality in South Asia.
This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of...
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195,42 zł |
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The Modernity of Sanskrit
ISBN: 9780816649969 / Angielski / Miękka / 213 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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104,88 zł |
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Martyr as Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of Bhagat Singh
ISBN: 9788190583503 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To some, history and literary culture are strange bedfellows. This book on Bhagat Singh is written from the viewpoint of vernacular Punjabi culture and tries to tread on the marginalized path of vernacular culture as a methodology of a historian's craft. The book seeks to understand the manner in which Punjabis constructed the image of Bhagat Singh in their literature. Bhagat Singh's revolutionary life, culminating in his martyrdom, had an enormous impact on the Punjabis, who in their diverse genres of folklore, catch-songs, marriage songs, couplets and proverbs eulogized him in multiple...
To some, history and literary culture are strange bedfellows. This book on Bhagat Singh is written from the viewpoint of vernacular Punjabi culture an...
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349,44 zł |
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Postcolonial Literary History and Indian English Fiction
ISBN: 9781604975604 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by Paul Sharrad, professor of English at Wollongong University, Australia, this book is the successful outcome of a difficult feat it represents an interesting new approach to a well-trodden field of study. In this collection of essays, the author revisits certain issues within the distinctive frames of each essay. Of particular interest is the way the author is continually mindful of how postcolonial studies might be reconceptualised an approach that many critics of note have taken in recent years, especially Neil Lazarus, Reed Dasenbrock, and Bart Moore-Gilbert, in different ways....
Written by Paul Sharrad, professor of English at Wollongong University, Australia, this book is the successful outcome of a difficult feat it represen...
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537,89 zł |
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The Indian English Novel: Nation, History, and Narration
ISBN: 9780199544387 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. It is often claimed that unlike the British novel or the novel in indigenous Indian languages, Anglophone fiction in India has no genealogy of its own. Interrogating this received idea, Priyamvada Gopal shows how the English-language or Anglophone Indian novel is a heterogeneous body of fiction in which certain dominant trends and recurrent themes are,...
The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions ...
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493,43 zł |
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The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir
ISBN: 9780674032736 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title examines the revolution the Sanskrit poetics initiated by the ninth-century Kashmiri Anandavardhana.
This title examines the revolution the Sanskrit poetics initiated by the ninth-century Kashmiri Anandavardhana.
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281,40 zł |
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Territory of Desire : Representing the Valley of Kashmir
ISBN: 9780816653560 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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325,30 zł |
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Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir
ISBN: 9780816653577 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,37 zł |
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Shashi Deshpande
ISBN: 9780746311356 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book places the writer's works in the context of the complexities in the construction of Indian women by examining the specific historical conditions that represented them; a literary theory of Indian women writers and Deshpande's interviews and articles. Amrita Bhalla reads Deshpande's works by going beyond the parameters of labels and descriptions and offers for the first time a critical insight into the way Indian women have been represented in recent Indian history and in contemporary India. This study springs from her belief that it is essential to locate and place Indian literary...
This book places the writer's works in the context of the complexities in the construction of Indian women by examining the specific historical condit...
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394,89 zł |
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