Описание: Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods, it is still popular today, with many contemporary Japanese comedians having originally trained as rakugo artists. Rakugo is divided into two distinct strands, the Tokyo tradition and the Osaka tradition, with the latter having previously been largely overlooked. This pioneering study of the Kamigata (Osaka) rakugo tradition presents the first complete English translation of five classic rakugo stories, and offers a history of comic storytelling in Kamigata (modern Kansai, Kinki) from the seventeenth century to the present day. Considering the art in terms of gender, literature, performance, and society, this volume grounds Kamigata rakugo in its distinct cultural context and sheds light on the 'other' rakugo for students and scholars of Japanese culture and history.
Автор: William Bryan Jones Название: Classics Illustrated: A Cultural History ISBN: 147668832X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476688329 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic book adaptations of literary masterpieces in even greater depth. Drawing on interviews, correspondence, fanzines and archival research, the work of the artists, editors, scriptwriters and publishers who contributed to the success of the "World's Finest Juvenile Publication" is covered in full detail. Many reproductions of original art are included, along with new chapters covering editor Meyer Kaplan, art director L.B. Cole and artist John Parker, and a complete listing of significant international series.
Автор: Kevane Bridget Название: Stavans Unbound: The Critic Between Two Canons ISBN: 1644696096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644696095 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12354.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ilans Stavans has become a polarizing figure, dismissed and praised in equal measure, a commanding if contested intellectual whose work as a cultural critic has been influential in the fields of Latino and Jewish studies, politics, immigration, religion, language, and identity. This collection celebrates twenty-five years of Stavans` work.
Описание: Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the novels and short stories of Ernest Gaines in college literature classrooms, including considerations of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, influences, slavery, Jim Crow, black power, the black arts movement, humour, folk culture, film, adaptations, and criminal law.
Описание: Llбmenme el mexicano Los almanaques y otras obras de Carlos de Sigьenza y Gуngora presenta una visiуn fresca, iluminadora y provocativa de partes de la vida y escritos de Carlos de Sigьenza y Gуngora poco conocidos o analizados hasta ahora. Seis de los almanaques escritos a mano por йl y que aъn existen en el Archivo General de la Naciуn de Mйxico forman el hilo conductor de este libro. Gracias a de ellos es posible, asimismo, un innovador anбlisis de dos de sus obras mejor conocidas: Parayso occidental e Infortunios de Alonzo Ramнrez.
Автор: Laetitia Zecchini Название: Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India: Moving Lines ISBN: 1474275664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474275668 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this first scholarly work on India's great modern poet, Laetitia Zecchini outlines a story of literary modernism in India and discusses the traditions, figures and events that inspired and defined Arun Kolatkar. Based on an impressive range of archival and unpublished material, this book also aims at moving lines of accepted genealogies of modernism and 'postcolonial literature'.
Zecchini uncovers how poets of Kolatkar's generation became modern Indian writers while tracing a lineage to medieval oral traditions. She considers how literary bilingualism allowed Kolatkar to blur the boundaries between Marathi and English, 'Indian' and 'Western sources; how he used his outsider position to privilege the quotidian and minor and revived the spirit of popular devotion.
Graphic artist, poet and songwriter, storyteller of Bombay and world history, poet in Marathi, in English and in 'Americanese', non-committal and deeply political, Kolatkar made lines wobble and treasured impermanence. Steeped in world literature, in European avant-garde poetry, American pop and folk culture, in a 'little magazine' Bombay bohemia and a specific Marathi ethos, Kolatkar makes for a fascinating subject to explore and explain the story of modernism in India.
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Автор: Keating Название: Critic Of Civilization ISBN: 081315295X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813152950 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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As one of the outstanding minds of France, the career of George Duhamel reflects the universal range of his interests. A physician turned poet, playwright, novelist, publicist, critic, and world traveler, Duhamel for half a century has sought as a liberal humanist to defend the moral and aesthetic values of Western civilization against the encroachment of a dehumanizing machine age.
Duhamel first achieved fame as a writer with two eloquent outcries against war in Vie des Martyrs and Civilisation, written while he was a front-line surgeon during World War I. His later plays and novels continued to deal with the search of the individual for identity in contemporary life, especially in the Salavin series and the ten-volume Chronique des Pasquier, his outstanding works of fiction. Among the commentaries on other cultures arising from his travels, Duhamel's scathing criticism of the United States in Scenes de la vie future aroused particular furor.
It is in Duhamel's feeling for humanity, Mr. Keating believes, that one may discover the consistent pattern in Duhamel's work, essentially the passionate reaction of a surgeon-artist to the cruelties of a war-torn world. In this critical biography of Duhamel as writer and thinker, Mr. Keating therefore relates all of Duhamel's many-sided activities to his underlying purpose -- to find a path for individual happiness in the complexities of contemporary life.
Автор: Catherine A. Davies Название: Whitman`s Queer Children: America`s Homosexual Epics ISBN: 1628923180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628923186 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first full-length study to explore the idea of a `gay epic` in American poetry.
Автор: Janet Groth Название: Edmund Wilson: Critic For Our Time ISBN: 0821409190 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821409190 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5320.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the course of a career that spanned five decades, Edmund Wilson’s literary output was impressive. His life’s work includes five volumes of poetry, two works of fiction, thirteen plays, and more than twenty volumes of social commentary on travel, politics, history, religion, anthropology, and economics. It is, however, his criticism for which Wilson is best known. To note a few of his accomplishments as a critic, Wilson furthered the understanding and appreciation of the poetry of W.B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, promoted the enigmatic prose of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, and pioneered the study of women writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Kate Chopin.
With the advent of contemporary concerns in literary criticism, the work of Edmund Wilson is frequently relegated to a lesser role. In this energetic and convincing study of one of America’s most distinguished literary critics, Janet Groth sets out to restore Wilson’s work to a place of prominence amongst current critical modes. She offers extended and rigorous treatments of Wilson’s most important critical works and traces his roots as a critic in the work of Matthew Arnold, Sainte-Beuve and Taine, demonstrating how Wilson used the work of Frued and Marx to update this tradition. Most importantly, however, Groth demonstrates that Wilson’s work has significance today and that lasting value in Wilson’s critical studies is his constant belief in the close relationship between life and literature.
Автор: Okuyama, Yoshiko Название: Reframing disability in manga ISBN: 0824889878 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824889876 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Reframing Disability in Manga analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. It focuses on five representative conditions currently classified as sh?gai (disabilities) in Japan - deafness, blindness, paraplegia, autism, and gender identity disorder - and explores the complexities and sociocultural issues surrounding each. Author Yoshiko Okuyama begins by looking at preindustrial understandings of difference in Japanese myths and legends before moving on to an overview of contemporary representations of disability in popular culture, uncovering sociohistorical attitudes toward the physically, neurologically, or intellectually marked Other. She critiques how characters with disabilities have been represented in mass media, which has reinforced ableism in society and negatively influenced our understanding of human diversity in the past. Okuyama then presents fifteen case studies, each centered on a manga or manga series, that showcase how careful depictions of such characters as differently abled, rather than disabled or impaired, can influence cultural constructions of sh?gai and promote social change. Informed by numerous interviews with manga authors and disability activists, Okuyama reveals positive messages of diversity embedded in manga and argues that greater awareness of disability in Japan in the last two decades is due in part to the popularity of these works, the accessibility of the medium, and the authentic stories they tell. Scholars and students in disability studies will find this book an invaluable resource as well as those with interests in Japanese cultural and media studies in general and manga and queer narrative and anti-normative discourse in Japan in particular.
Автор: Canning Richard, Kimber Gerri Название: Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist ISBN: 1474462677 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474462679 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 7852.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores all aspects of Brophy`s literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy`s eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.
Автор: Edited by Joycelyn Moody Название: A History of African American Autobiography ISBN: 1108835546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108835541 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14731.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black self-representation amid life writing studies. It will be a key resource for graduates and researchers in African American Literary studies, American literature more generally, and specialists in Life Writing.
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