Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan
ISBN: 9781349480043 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of decadence.
Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study...
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191,40 zł |
Confluences: Postwar Japan and Francevolume 42
ISBN: 9781929280148 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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267,27 zł |
Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780674975163 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthetics, the figure of the bijin appeared across a broad range of visual and textual media: photographs, illustrations, prints, and literary works, as well as fictional, critical, and journalistic writing. It eventually constituted a genre of painting called bijinga (paintings... This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" ( |
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343,71 zł |
The Murakami Pilgrimage: A Guide to the Real-Life Places of Haruki Murakami's Fiction
ISBN: 9780998427836 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Murakami Pilgrimage is a comprehensive Japan travel guide which focuses on the locations featured in the novels of Haruki Murakami. Put yourself into your favorite characters' shoes as you explore Tokyo, Hokkaido, Shikoku and more You'll learn all about the neighborhoods and landmarks mentioned in each novel as well as exactly how to get there. Also included within each itinerary are recommendations on other interesting things to do and see nearby. INSIDE YOU'LL FIND. . .
The Murakami Pilgrimage is a comprehensive Japan travel guide which focuses on the locations featured in the novels of Ha... |
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230,64 zł |
Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity Across Time
ISBN: 9780231170918 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan Stanford Friedman recasts modernity as a networked, circulating, and recurrent phenomenon producing multiple aesthetic innovations across millennia. Considering cosmopolitan as well as nomadic and oceanic worlds, she radically revises the scope of modernist critique and opens the practice to more integrated study.
Friedman moves from large-scale instances of pre-1500 modernities, such as Tang Dynasty China and the Mongol Empire, to... Drawing on a vast archive of world history, anthropology, geography, cultural theory, postcolonial studies, gender studies, literature, and art, Susan...
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120,12 zł |
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan
ISBN: 9781138306110 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of the ways it is theorized and approached as a significant social, cultural, or political practice, and harnessed by its multiple agents; (2) draws attention to the multi-platform translations of cultural productions such as manga, which are both particular to and popular in Japan but also... Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural an... |
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217,80 zł |
Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture
ISBN: 9780415691437 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Soseki's novel 'Kokoro' pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? In addressing these and other questions, the essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history.
How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Soseki's novel 'Kokoro' pervert the Freudian teleology of se...
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228,18 zł |
Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1: Origin
ISBN: 9781943149131 / Chiński / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,37 zł |
Sōseki: Modern Japan's Greatest Novelist
ISBN: 9780231171427 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of Natsume Soseki, the father of the modern novel in Japan. This biography elevates Soseki to his rightful place as a great synthesizer of literary traditions and a brilliant chronicler of universal experience who, no less than his Western contemporaries, anticipated twentieth-century modernism.
John Nathan provides a lucid and vivid account of Natsume Soseki, the father of the modern novel in Japan. This biography elevates Soseki to his right...
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163,80 zł |
Japan Dreams: Notes from an Unreal Country
ISBN: 9780994193421 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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138,77 zł |
Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945
ISBN: 9780231187138 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of Japanese modernity. Electrified Voices is a far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan.
Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory cultu...
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152,88 zł |
Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan: Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture
ISBN: 9781138502796 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture. This book examines the relationship between normative femininity and women’s self-directed violence in contemporary Japanese culture. To theoretically define the complexities that constitute normativity, the book develops the concept of ‘contradictive femininity’ and shows how in Japanese...
From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about ...
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248,92 zł |
Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945
ISBN: 9780231187121 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of Japanese modernity. Electrified Voices is a far-reaching cultural history of the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and early sound film in Japan.
Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory cultu...
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480,48 zł |
One Green Bottle
ISBN: 9781786824998 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new absurd comedy from the team behind the international hit The Bee. Renowned Japanese writer, performer and Artistic Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Hideki Noda paints a portrait of a disconnected family on a self-destructive course in this satirical comedy about consumerism and technology in a `selfie' society.
A new absurd comedy from the team behind the international hit The Bee. Renowned Japanese writer, performer and Artistic Director of the Tokyo Metropo...
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51,82 zł |
Salad Anniversary
ISBN: 9781782274575 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,63 zł |
Five Plays by Kishida Kunio
ISBN: 9781885445513 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,57 zł |
The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame: Worlds of Memory, Discovery, and Loss in Japanese Poetry
ISBN: 9781933947129 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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560,20 zł |
Japan Fluxus
ISBN: 9781498578257 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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491,40 zł |
Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan
ISBN: 9780691183626 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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245,70 zł |
Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780674237308 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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207,21 zł |