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Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet
ISBN: 9780824858506 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japan's ancien regime was ceding authority to a new political order dominated by military power. Overcoming personal and political setbacks, Teika and his allies championed a new style of poetry that managed to innovate conceptually and linguistically within the narrow confines of the waka tradition and the limits of its thirty-one syllable form. Backed by powerful patrons, Teika emerged finally as the supreme arbiter of poetry in his time, serving as co-compiler of the eighth imperial anthology of waka,... Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japan's ancien regime was ceding authority to a new political o... |
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276,90 |
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Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam: Perspectives on Umayyad Elites
ISBN: 9780190498931 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century later, by the time of their downfall in 750, the last Umayyad caliphs governed the largest empire that the world had seen, stretching from Spain in the West to the Indus valley and Central Asia in the East. By then, their dynasty and the ruling circles around it had articulated with increasing clarity the public face of the new...
When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed...
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558,56 |
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Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
ISBN: 9780231166515 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers. The noh theater's stylized choreography, poetic chant, spectacular costumes and masks, and engagement with history inspired Western artists as they reimagined new approaches to tradition and form. In Learning to Kneel, Preston locates noh's important influence on such canonical figures as...
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, ...
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106,87 |
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Cornelius's Fantasma
ISBN: 9781501330179 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce a series of albums under the name Cornelius which are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter ego, Fantasma (1997) played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map of Western music fans, while Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry.... In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shib... |
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71,59 |
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Cornelius's Fantasma
ISBN: 9781501330216 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce a series of albums under the name Cornelius which are among the most innovative in Japanese popular music of the past two decades. Oyamada's third album under his Cornelius alter ego, Fantasma (1997) played a key role in putting J-pop on the world map of Western music fans, while Oyamada himself is today one of the most respected figures in the Japanese music industry.... In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar were at the forefront of a new direction in Japanese popular music known as Shib... |
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327,26 |
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On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan
ISBN: 9780472130603 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte is Pascoe's lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including quite varied and...
While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there....
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270,76 |
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Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors
ISBN: 9780824875091 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan's complex polygynous kinship system as the domain within which courtship occurs.
Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In thi...
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135,98 |
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古狂歌 ご笑納ください: 万葉集まで首狩に行ってきまし{
ISBN: 9780997946307 / Japoński / Miękka / 598 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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166,03 |
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American Haiku: New Readings
ISBN: 9781498527170 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth century to modern times.
American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth ...
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510,07 |
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Ecocriticism in Japan
ISBN: 9781498527842 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, "What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?" Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Abe, Oe, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.
Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, "What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?" Engaging work...
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510,07 |
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The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections
ISBN: 9781498550208 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines how the use of the atomic bomb in Japan has been memorialized. The contributors analyze the cultural legacies of the atomic bomb in political, historical, literary, and artistic contexts.
This collection examines how the use of the atomic bomb in Japan has been memorialized. The contributors analyze the cultural legacies of the atomic b...
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461,50 |
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古狂歌 滑稽の蒸すまで: 鮑の貝も戸ざさぬ国を祝ふ
ISBN: 9780997946321 / Japoński / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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140,49 |
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How to Read a Japanese Poem
ISBN: 9780231186834 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter...
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127,84 |
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Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and the Tale of Genji Scrollsvolume 84
ISBN: 9780472130962 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does mourning emerge to reshape Japanese visual culture? Textures of Mourning addresses this question by examining engrossing literary and visual portrayals of death and its aftermath from The Tale of Genji and its adaptations.
How does mourning emerge to reshape Japanese visual culture? Textures of Mourning addresses this question by examining engrossing literary and visual ...
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373,03 |
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How to Read a Japanese Poem
ISBN: 9780231186827 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter...
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383,51 |
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Contesting the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Cultural Representations of Japan's National Pastime
ISBN: 9789888455829 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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178,97 |
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Making Law Work: Chinese Laws in Context
ISBN: 9781933947242 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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582,94 |
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Supernatural Beings from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fifth Group
ISBN: 9781933947310 / Angielski / Twarda / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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235,22 |
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White Poppies and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781933947532 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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131,11 |
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Gendered Power: Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court
ISBN: 9780472073979 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Shoen; and educator and prolific author Shimoda Utako.
Sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Sh...
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296,09 |