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Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
ISBN: 9780674088412 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing Technology in Meiji Japan boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. Drawing upon methodological insights by Friedrich Kittler and extensive archival research, Seth Jacobowitz investigates a range of epistemic transformations in the Meiji era (1868-1912), from the rise of communication networks such as telegraph and post to debates over national language and script reform. He documents the changing discursive practices and conceptual constellations that reshaped the verbal, visual, and literary...
Writing Technology in Meiji Japan boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective ...
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174,32 zł |
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Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory
ISBN: 9780824846756 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lovable Losers is the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira), a family of aristocratic warriors whose resounding defeat at the hands of the Seiwa Genji in 1185 resulted in their iconic status as tragic losers. The Tale of the Heike and the many other works derived from it set in place the depiction of the Heike as failed upstart aristocrats whose spectacular downfall was due to neglect of their warrior heritage and the villainy of the family head, Taira no Kiyomori. Lovable Losers aims to contextualize... Lovable Losers is the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira),... |
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273,16 zł |
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Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp
ISBN: 9781138985094 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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224,33 zł |
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Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre: From Hamlet to Madame Butterfly
ISBN: 9781349371273 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and compares that tradition with that in European Renaissance drama. Why are the two great plays of each tradition, plays regarded as defining their nations and eras, Kanadehon Chushingura and Hamlet, both revenge plays? What do the revenge dramas of Europe and Japan tell us about the periods that produced them and how have they been modernized to speak to contemporary audiences? By interrogating the manifestation of evil women, ghosts, satire,...
Revenge Drama in European Renaissance and Japanese Theatre is a collection of essays that both explores the tradition of revenge drama in Japan and co...
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201,72 zł |
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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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201,72 zł |
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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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204,39 zł |
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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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107,31 zł |
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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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219,45 zł |
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Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory
ISBN: 9780824875077 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira), a family of aristocratic warriors whose resounding defeat at the hands of the Seiwa Genji in 1185 resulted in their iconic status as tragic losers. Lovable Losers aims to contextualize and deconstruct representations of the Heike.
The first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira), a family of aristocr...
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107,26 zł |
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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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224,33 zł |
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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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154,04 zł |
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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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122,98 zł |
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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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143,77 zł |
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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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243,84 zł |
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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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51,29 zł |
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Salad Anniversary
ISBN: 9781782274575 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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50,40 zł |
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Five Plays by Kishida Kunio
ISBN: 9781885445513 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,24 zł |
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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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165,85 zł |
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Japan Fluxus
ISBN: 9781498578257 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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439,01 zł |
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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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219,50 zł |