The Woman Without a Hole - & Other Risky Themes from Old Japanese Poems
ISBN: 9780974261881 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies" and "Japanese Life and Character in Senryu." Blyth regretted having to introduce not the best senryu, but only the best that were clean enough to pass the censors. In this anthology, compiled, translated and essayed by Robin D. Gill, like Blyth, a renowned translator of thousands of haiku, we find 1,300 of the senryu (and zappai) that would once have been dangerous to publish. The book is not just an anthology of dirty...
17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satir...
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159,92 zł |
Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by the Poet-Monk Shinkei
ISBN: 9780804748636 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto (1463-1464), considered the most important and representative poetic treatise of the medieval period in Japan because of its thoroughgoing construction of poetry as a way to attain, and signify through language, the mental liberation (satori) that is the goal of Buddhist practice. It is a fascinating document revealing the central place of Buddhist philosophy in medieval Japanese artistic practices. Shinkei (1406-1475), the author of the treatise, is himself a major poet,...
Murmured Conversations is the first complete and rigorously annotated translation of Sasamegoto (1463-1464), considered the most importa...
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412,87 zł |
When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9780674027947 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As industrial and scientific developments in early-twentieth-century Japan transformed the meaning of objective observation, modern writers and poets struggled to capture what they had come to see as an evolving network of invisible relations joining people to the larger material universe. For these artists, literary modernism was a crisis of perception before it was a crisis of representation. "When Our Eyes No Longer See" portrays an extraordinary moment in the history of this perceptual crisis and in Japanese literature during the 1920s and 1930s. The displacement in science of... As industrial and scientific developments in early-twentieth-century Japan transformed the meaning of objective observation, modern writers and po... |
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The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki Between Japan and the United States
ISBN: 9780674028333 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Despite Murakami s critical and commercial success, particularly in the United States, his role as a mediator between Japanese and American literature and culture is seldom discussed. Bringing a comparative perspective to the study of Murakami s fiction, Rebecca Suter complicates our understanding of the author s oeuvre and highlights his contributions not only as a popular writer but also as a cultural critic on both sides of the Pacific. Suter concentrates on Murakami s short... Murakami Haruki is perhaps the best-known and most widely translated Japanese author of his generation. Despite Murakami s critical and commercial... |
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An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-Of-The-Century Japanese Novel
ISBN: 9780804757775 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. An Age of Melodrama examines four enormously popular novels from this period by interweaving two threads of argument. Using approaches to melodrama developed in Western literary and film criticism, it first shows how these texts used their binary morality to construct a semblance of moral certainty in a moment of social transformation. It then examines how the novels responded to a particular set of ideologies of the...
At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked ...
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341,51 zł |
Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937
ISBN: 9780824831882 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan--and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it--argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between unequal cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese letters. Mark Silver tells the story of Japan's adoption of this new Western literary form at a time when the nation was... This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan--and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it--argues for a reasse... |
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289,74 zł |
Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture
ISBN: 9780816650262 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership to complex moral questions and timely ethical dilemmas. The first book-length study of interwar Japanese detective fiction, Murder Most Modern considers the important role of detective fiction in defining the country's emergence as a modern nation-state.
Kawana explores the interactions between the popular genre and broader discourses of modernity, nation, and ethics that circulated at this pivotal moment in Japanese history.... The quintessential international genre, detective fiction often works under the guise of popular entertainment to expose its extensive readership t... |
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Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780231142373 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods, revealing its profound influence on a variety of genres and fields, including modern nation building. They also consider parody, pastiche, and re-creation of the text in various popular and mass media. Since the Genji was written by a woman for female readers,...
Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproducti...
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171,70 zł |
Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
ISBN: 9780231142366 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods, revealing its profound influence on a variety of genres and fields, including modern nation building. They also consider parody, pastiche, and re-creation of the text in various popular and mass media. Since the Genji was written by a woman for female readers,...
Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproducti...
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726,01 zł |
Zeami: Performance Notes
ISBN: 9780231139588 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of Zeami's critical thought on this subject, which focused on the aesthetic values of no and its antecedents, the techniques of playwriting, the place of allusion, the training of actors, the importance of patronage, and the relationship between performance and broader intellectual and...
Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of...
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536,55 zł |
Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics
ISBN: 9780804748889 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first time, on the two concepts of emptiness (J.kū) and temporality (mujō) that ground the medieval practice and understanding of poetry. It clarifies the unique structure of the collective poetic genre called renga (linked poetry) by analyzing Shinkei's writings, particularly Sasamegoto. This book engages contemporary Western theory, especially Derrida's concepts of differance and deconstruction, to illuminate the progressive displacement that constitutes...
Emptiness and Temporality is an account of classical Japanese poetics based, for the first time, on the two concepts of emptiness (J.kū...
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341,51 zł |
Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production of Literature in Meiji Japan
ISBN: 9780804757782 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is "literature?" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a very complex historical process that engaged with varying forces of modernity. Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment illuminates the large picture of intellectual, political, and literary culture of 1880s Japan and offers a paradigm-shattering discussion of the creation of literature as a cultural category. Literature emerged out of ongoing negotiations with modernizing and globalizing impulses that governed Meiji Japan...
What is "literature?" The answer to this question may seem self-evident to us now. However, the production of literature as a category was in fact a v...
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Murakami Haruki: The Simulacrum in Contemporary Japanese Culture
ISBN: 9780739127254 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami's radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture.
This book offers a new approach to dealing with Murakami's radical narrative project by demonstrating how his first and later trilogies utilize the st...
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257,54 zł |
The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780761839804 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though the haiku is the best known Japanese verse form in the west, its appearance in the early modern period (1600-1868) was preceded by at least a millennium of waka poetry, whose thirty-one syllable version, tanka, had dominated Japanese letters among the aristocracy from the beginning of the tenth century. The Way of the Shikishima demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Tokugawa hegemony in the early seventeenth century, waka was in fact closely tied to contemporary social, cultural, and intellectual developments, and how those ties became closer over time. The aristocratic monopoly...
Though the haiku is the best known Japanese verse form in the west, its appearance in the early modern period (1600-1868) was preceded by at least a m...
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366,09 zł |
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire
ISBN: 9780415474603 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese canon, for instance works by Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo and Shinoda Masahiro, all renowned for their texts' aesthetic and philosophic brilliance. Cornyetz uniquely opens up the field in a fresh and controversial way by showing how these authors and filmmakers' concepts of... This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and in... |
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Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan
ISBN: 9780674031128 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title explores Hyakken's fiction and essays written during Japan's prewar years and investigates the intersection of his literature with the surroundings of the time.
This title explores Hyakken's fiction and essays written during Japan's prewar years and investigates the intersection of his literature with the surr...
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182,15 zł |
Objective Description of the Self: Literary Theory of Iwano Homei
ISBN: 9788772886114 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a comprehensive overview of Iwano Homei's life and his distinctive body of literary work. This book introduces readers to Iwano's theory of literature, its development and content, as well as reactions to the theory.
Offers a comprehensive overview of Iwano Homei's life and his distinctive body of literary work. This book introduces readers to Iwano's theory of lit...
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96,59 zł |
A History of Japanese Literature: From the Manyoshu to Modern Times
ISBN: 9781873410486 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature and foregoes the original supporting philosophical and religious debate in order to provide a more practical and direct source of reference within the context of literature studies, and other comparative works of literary criticism.
The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development...
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249,71 zł |
Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature
ISBN: 9780824832858 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton's words, endlessly interpretable, and food, like literature, looks like an object but is actually a relationship. So how much do we, and should we, read into the way food is represented in literature? Reading Food explores this and other questions in an unusual and fascinating tour of twentieth-century Japanese literature. Tomoko Aoyama analyzes a wide range of diverse writings that focus on food, eating, and cooking and considers how factors such as industrialization, urbanization, nationalism, and gender construction have affected people's... Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton's words, endlessly interpretable, and food, like literature, looks like an object but is actually a re... |
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Sublime Voices: The Fictional Science and Scientific Fiction of Abe Kobo
ISBN: 9780674032781 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By arguing that the crisis of identity and post-war anomie in Abe's works is inseparable from the need to marshal these different scientific and literary voices, Christopher Bolton explores how this reconciliation of ideas and dialects is for Abe part of the process whereby texts and individuals form themselves.
By arguing that the crisis of identity and post-war anomie in Abe's works is inseparable from the need to marshal these different scientific and liter...
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182,15 zł |