Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture, Paperback - ***

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

Centering on contemporary synaesthetic and multimodal works, Through the Prism of the Senses examines new theory and practice in body-based arts an...

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Poetry has long been thought of as a genre devoted to grand subjects, timeless themes, and sublime beauty. Why, then, have contemporary poets turne...

Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

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Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its c...

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

This collection explores the Black body in the context of transhuman realities from a variety of literary and artistic perspectives. Contributing t...

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DescriptionA Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body examines the importance of the body in everyday psychoanalytic pr...

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Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unr...

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The Art of Useless offers an innovative way to understand China's political-economic, social, and cultural transformations, showing how consumer cu...

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This unique book offers guidance for Contemporary Art practices in dialogue with history, story, memory and tradition.Publisher: Taylor & Francis L...

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John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences per...

A celebratory volume that gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociabi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 12 Illus...

In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together establishe...

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'A Japanese Mirror is what the tourist who wants to see the real Japan - "through the looking glass" - should pack in his flight-bag.' TLS

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Japan, then keep reading...Japan, the country of the rising sun, is today known as one o...

A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Jeffrey AnglesNumber of pages...

This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdiscip...

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The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 6 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 128 x 198 x 22Cover type: Pape...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 368Collection: Edinburgh Studies on Modern ...

This book explores the transformation of Japan's state in response to the challenges of governance by focusing on the case studies of ICT regulatio...

The essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history in Japan. By r...

The Body in the Wall by Rita Herron This place had been her home, now it's a crime scenePublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Marie Ferrare...

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Charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America. This book explains these transformatio...

Part Samurai history, part martial arts guide, this is THE book for anyone interested in Japan's fabled Samurai culture. Author Alexander Bennett i...

The Dark Side of Japan is a collection of folk tales, black magic, protection spells, monsters and other dark interpretations of life and death fro...

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