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  • Singapore Literature and Culture

    Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts

    Edited by Angus Whitehead, Angelia Poon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Read more

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  • Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel

    A Modern Korean Novel

    by Man-Sik Chae, Kyung-Ja Chun ...
    Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "Peace Under Heaven" is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Against World Literature

    On the Politics of Untranslatability

    by Emily Apter ...
    Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution.In ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film

    by Professor Graham Holderness ...
    At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect humanity's salvation. In his dual nature as mortal and divinity, and unlike the impassable God of other monotheisms, Christ thus became accessible to artistic representation. Hence the figure of Jesus has ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Postcoloniality and Indian English Poetry

    A Study of the Poems of Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra and A.K.Ramanujan

    by SUBRAT KUMAR SAMAL ...
    This book aims at study and analysis of the poetry of the first four major poets of the postcolonial trend in the Indian context. It examines and explores the various aspects and characteristics of their poetry which can qualify them on the double standards of both being Indian and modern at the same time in a justifiable manner. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    by Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • South-Asian Fiction in English

    Contemporary Transformations

    Edited by Alex Tickell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Hinduism and Hindi Theater

    by Diana Dimitrova ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Consolations of Writing

    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi

    by Rivkah Zim ...
    Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistanceBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Azaleas

    A Book of Poems

    by Kim Sowol ...
    Translated by David McCann ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known poets. His work is a delightful and sophisticated blend of the images, tonalities, and rhythms of ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s

    Edited by Rajender Kaur, Anupama Arora ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an ... Read more

    $98.09 USD