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Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry by James Byrne
RRP: $16.76$11.53Bones Will Crow is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets in any language, and includes the work of Burmese poets in exile, in prison and undercover. Introduced by Zeyar Lynn, with a Preface by Ruth Padel.The poets featured are Tin Moe... -
The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China by Ronald C. Egan 9780674726697
RRP: $64.44$50.92Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China's literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But... -
Commentary on The Song of Awakening by Yoka Daishi
RRP: $48.96$40.20A Twentieth-century Japanese Zen Master's Commentary on Shodoeka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the Great Seventh-century Chinese Ch'an master, Yoka Genkaku (Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh)About the AuthorTranslated from Japanese to French by Janine Coursin... -
Film Violence - History, Ideology, Genre by Jim Kendrick 9781906660260
RRP: $23.21$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660260Author Jim KendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
Electoral Systems and Voting in the United Kingdom by Chris Robinson
RRP: $27.08$23.97A key feature of the New Labour government's constitutional reform agenda has been the introduction of a number of alternative methods of voting for both existing elections and for those to new political institutions. This book examines the workings of... -
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu by Alan Stephen Wolfe
RRP: $49.02$44.29Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on... -
Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War by John Gilmour
$50.77This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict. Interest in Sweden's wartime experiences has... -
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan by Paul Gordon Schalow 9780824830205
RRP: $65.79$53.55Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for evidence that women hoped to move beyond the constraints of marriage politics. Paul Schalow's... -
Augustus by Jonathan Edmondson
RRP: $39.99$37.60Augustus (63 BC -- AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next... -
Mahabharata by William Buck 9780520305588
RRP: $21.92$17.21Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience in nations with radically different languages and cultures as the Mahabharata. Written some 2,000 years ago and probably the longest Indian epic ever composed, it is a story of dynastic... -
Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays by Stephen H. West 9781603842006
RRP: $24.50$21.27This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250-1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in... -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: $38.64$31.13This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century. The book contains a dazzling array of myths and legends, essays and biographies, love poems and Zen... -
Deleuze and Queer Theory by Chrysanthi Nigianni
RRP: $39.99$33.09This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, it... -
Roman Imperialism by Andrew Erskine
RRP: $38.69$35.17This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch'ien 9780253038555
RRP: $58.05$50.14"An essential source for the study of events in early China, a guide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a splendid work of literature which may be read for the pleasure of its style and the power of its narrative. . . . This work makes... -
Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism by Miryam Sas
RRP: $36.11$31.15How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early twentieth century, focusing on Surrealist... -
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 9780520390485
RRP: $20.63$14.56Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature.Dictee is the best-known work of... -
Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage by Dr. Graham Jones
RRP: $39.99$36.83The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze is increasingly gaining the prestige that its astonishing inventiveness calls for in the Anglo-American theoretical context. His wide-ranging works on the history of philosophy, cinema, painting, literature and politics... -
The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara
RRP: $36.11$30.75A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780804718950Author Paul... -
Al Sur de la Frontera, Al Oeste del Sol by Haruki Murakami
$20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788483102503Author Haruki MurakamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint TusQuetsPublisher TusQuetsWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 143mm * 15mm -
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates by Muhammad Khalid Masud
RRP: $33.53$29.81Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently... -
Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897-1959 by Edward G. Seidensticker
$28.97Kafu the Scribbler is neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three. It is an introduction to Nagai Kafu and his city, accompanied by a fairly generous sampling from his works.About the AuthorEdward... -
Deleuze and Performance by Laura Cull
RRP: $39.99$36.31Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in... -
The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India by R. Parthasarathy
RRP: $38.70$29.44Originating in Tamil mythology, "Cilappatikaram" is the love story of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life... -
Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry: With 'Tosa Nikki' and 'Shinsen Waka' by Helen Craig McCullough
RRP: $116.10$99.52A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews'Every Western student of Japanese classical literature of pre-modern history is indebted to Helen McCullough for her many major contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the literature and culture of... -
An Introduction to Late Modern English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
RRP: $25.79$21.18Some twenty years ago it was widely believed that nothing much happened to the English language since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Recent research has shown that this is far from true, and this book offers an introduction to a period that... -
The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911 16 by Jan Bardsley
RRP: $30.32$24.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280452Author Jan BardsleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power by Nick Vaughan-Williams
RRP: $32.24$28.24This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the... -
Studying British Cinema: 1990s by Eddie Dyja
RRP: $35.48$31.67The 1990s were years of contradiction for British cinema. On the one hand, the exhibition and production of British films bounced back from the dark days of the early 1980s, in which cinema attendance and filmmaking slumped to an all-time low. On the... -
Maninbo: Peace & War by Ko Un
RRP: $19.35$12.64Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' Maninbo (Ten Thousand... -
Worldly Stage: Theatricality in Seventeeth-Century China by Sophie Volpp
RRP: $48.96$39.14In seventeenth-century China, as formerly disparate social spheres grew closer, the theater began to occupy an important ideological niche among traditional cultural elites, and notions of performance and spectatorship came to animate diverse aspects of... -
The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 by Shu-mei Shih
RRP: $37.41$29.00Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and... -
The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century by Burton Watson
RRP: $45.15$35.10The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry presents translations of more than 420 poems by 96 poets drawn from the great ages of Chinese poetry. It begins with selections from the Book of Odes, the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry compiled around the seventh... -
Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei by Rajyashree Pandey
$43.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512867Author Rajyashree PandeyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Song of Sadness by Shûsaku Endô
$27.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280223Author Shusaku EndoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
British Asian Fiction: Twenty-First-Century Voices by Sara Upstone 9780719078330
RRP: $25.79$22.50This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic,... -
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa by Davinder L. Bhowmik 9780824839802
RRP: $36.06$29.13Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately... -
Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment by Jeffrey Bell
RRP: $30.95$25.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474566Author Jeffrey BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane 9780804741057
RRP: $38.69$33.53Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese... -
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji' by Haruo Shirane 9780804717199
RRP: $38.69$33.53The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese...