Автор: Shirane Haruo Название: Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons ISBN: 0231152817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231152815 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3960.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In "Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons," Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses a wide array of representations of nature in the Japanese arts: textual (poetry, chronicles, tales), cultivated (gardens, flower arrangement), material (kimonos, screens), performative (noh, festivals), and gastronomic (tea ceremony, food rituals). He reveals how this kind of "secondary nature," which flourished in Japan`s urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when nature began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics and the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this fascinating book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world.
Автор: Eagleton, Terry, Название: The idea of culture / ISBN: 0631219668 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631219668 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3952.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focuses on discriminating different meanings of culture, as a way of introducing the debates around it. This book offers a critique of postmodern `culturalism`, arguing instead for a more complex relation between Culture and Nature, and trying to retrieve the importance of such concepts as human nature from a non-naturalistic perspective.
Автор: Rzhevsky Название: The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture ISBN: 0521175585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521175586 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4435.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This highly successful Companion has now been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in Russian culture of the twenty-first century in this second edition. Each chapter has been revised or rewritten to take account of current conditions and the further reading brought up to date.
Автор: Yde Matthew Название: Bernard Shaw and Totalitarianism ISBN: 1137330198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137330192 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book reveals the genuity of Shaw`s totalitarianism by looking at his material - articles, speeches, letters, etc but is especially concerned with analyzing the utopian desire that runs through so many of Shaw`s plays; looking at his political and eugenic utopianism as expressed in his drama and comparing this to his political totalitarianism.
Автор: Galinsky, Karl Название: Augustan culture ISBN: 0691058903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691058900 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7128.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar`s reign (31 BC to AD 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for societies throughout Western history. This book presents an overview, one that brings together political and social history, art, literature, architecture, and religion.
Описание: Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.
Автор: Weintraub Название: Who`S Afraid Of Bernard Shaw? ISBN: 0813044715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813044712 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4158.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: "Leading us through this amazing wealth of connections, allusions, relationships, and influences, Weintraub never falters in his lucid writing that captures the reader's interest and fascination."--SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies
"This collection of essays by one of the world's leading Shaw scholars makes original and significant contributions to understanding of Shaw on many different fronts. . . . A most welcome addition to a masterly collection of works about Shaw and his contemporaries by Weintraub, a collection characteristically marked, as here, by lively, punchy, and entertaining writing."--English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920
"Splendid. This book continually surprises and entertains with its revelations about Shaw's engagement with an impressive array of historical and contemporary figures, ranging from Jesus to Virginia Woolf. This is a virtuoso performance by a maestro of Shaw studies."--A. M. Gibbs, author of Bernard Shaw: A Life
"Ur-Shavian Stanley Weintraub's great virtues as a writer are stunning erudition and a consistently high level of readability. Again and again, his scholarship is illuminating--alive with original findings that make his essays profitable and exciting to read."--Charles A. Carpenter, author of Bernard Shaw as Artist-Fabian
People known to Bernard Shaw had every reason to fear becoming recognizable characters in his plays. He turned Beatrice Webb into a witchlike virago in The Millionairess, Winston Churchill into an aspiring, blowhard politician in John Bull's Other Island, and Lawrence of Arabia into the eccentric army private Napoleon Alexander Trotsky Meek in Too True to Be Good. However, as eminent Shaw scholar Stanley Weintraub reveals in this exquisite collection, Shaw's relationships to real or imagined personalities could be both curiously unexpected and deliciously complex.
Featuring figures as varied as Julius Caesar, Zulu king Cetewayo, Noel Coward, Edward Elgar, and Benjamin Disraeli, this volume brilliantly demonstrates how Shaw put something of himself into all of his "people." The result is a book that is consistently revealing, intriguing, and entertaining.
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