Category - Literary Criticism
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Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siècle Japanese culture began to po...
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis
HardcoverOriginal price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigi...
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Review of Contemporary Fiction: New Catalan Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $8.00 - Original price $8.00Original price $8.00$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /This issue publishes short stories by Catalan's most exciting contemporary writers, providing readers a unique opportunity to view both the life an...
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Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780198866275 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication Date: 06-30-2023 Pages: 0
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The Bear and the Wildcat
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A picture book with delicate illustrations that explains the path of grief, ending with the uplifting new beginning of a budding friendship based ...
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Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897-1959
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Kafū 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 N...
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The Politics of Radical Democracy
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /This book addresses the idea of radical democracy and, in particular, its poststructuralist articulation. It analyses the approach to radical democ...
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Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe m...
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Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Indian Arrivals, 1870-1915: Networks of British Empire explores the rich and complicated landscape of intercultural contact between Indians and B...
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Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as mu...
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Food Justice and Animals: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently
HardcoverOriginal price $100.00 - Original price $100.00Original price $100.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The Russian Kurosawa offers a new historical perspective on the work of the renowned Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa. It uncovers Kurosawa's ...
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Three Satires
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /The Dark Age Ridiculed, by N la-kantha, Beguiling Artistry, by Kshem ndra, The Hundred Allegories, by Bh llataWritten over a period of nearly a ...
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Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $115.00 - Original price $115.00Original price $115.00$141.99$141.99 - $141.99Current price $141.99| /While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the ...
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The Law Code of Manu
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generates cont...
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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This collection of short stories, including many new translations, is the first to span the whole of Japan's modern era from the end of the ninet...
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Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan: The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chōmei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon...
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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally f...
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Appropriation and Representation: Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Feng Menglong (1574–1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling...
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Japanese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, written works originating from Japan encompass a vast range of forms and genres. Since the eight...
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The Noh Theatre of Japan: With Complete Texts of 15 Classic Plays
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This outstanding, scholarly work by an American-born authority on Chinese and Japanese art and literature, edited and translated by one of the mo...
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Deleuze and Queer Theory
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a ...
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Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre...
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By the River
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The novella, as the editors of this volume explain, is in many ways the “native habitat” of modern Chinese literary production—the ideal fiction...
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Two Halves of the World Apple: Poems by Yang Ke
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /An important voice in the "Third Generation" of contemporary Chinese poets--younger poets whose work emerged beginning in the late 1980s--Yang Ke h...
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