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  • England's Asian Renaissance

    by Abdulhamit Arvas, Richmond Barbour, Thea Buckley, Jennifer Feather, Nedda Mehdizadeh, Rachana Sachdev, Amrita Sen, Emily Soon ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped shape the country's culture and contributed to its national identity. Questioning long-standing dichotomies between East and West and embracing a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Women and Indian Shakespeares

    by Professor Mark Thornton Burnett ...
    Series series Shakespeare and Adaptation
    Women and Indian Shakespeares explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India. Women's engagements encompass the full range of media, from translation to cinematic adaptation and from early colonial performance to contemporary theatrical experiment. Simultaneously, Women and Indian Shakespeares makes visible the ways in which women are figured in ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

    by Sumita S. Chakravarty ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Read more

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  • The West

    A New History in Fourteen Lives

    by Naoíse Mac Sweeney ...
    **“A bold, sweeping bird’s eye view of thousands of years of history that provides a truly global perspective of the past. A fantastic achievement.”—Peter Frankopan, internationally bestselling author of The Silk RoadsPrize-winning historian Naoíse Mac Sweeney delivers a captivating exploration of how “Western Civilization”—the concept of a single cultural inheritance extending from ancient Greece ... Read more

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  • Bollywood

    Gods, Glamour, and Gossip

    by Kush Varia ...
    Series series Short Cuts
    While we have become familiar with the idea of "Bollywood" here in the West, we know little about the industry's films beyond a certain celebration of kitsch. Bollywood, the latest in Wallflower Press's Short Cuts introductory series, surveys this style of filmmaking from its origins in colonial times to the present, tracing its impact on both the Indian and global imagination. Chapters explore ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • England in the Age of Shakespeare

    by Jeremy Black ...
    A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare's plays.How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Short Story

    Western and Asian Traditions

    by Gulnaz Fatma ...
    Series series World Voices
    Worldwide Appreciation of the Short Story Form Spans Cultures and Centuries!In this concise volume, Gulnaz Fatma traces the short story from its origins in fables, ancient poetry, and tales such as The Arabian Nights, to its modern form in the early American stories of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, and then through the twentieth century and throughout the world. The elements of what makes a short ... Read more

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  • Guru Dutt and Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam

    by Sagarika Publication ...
    Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone, popularly known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema. He made quintessential 1950s and 1960s classics such as Pyaasa (Thirsty), Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (The King, the Queen and the Jack) and Chaudhvin Ka Chand (The Fourteenth Day Moon in ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Kathakali Dance-Drama

    Where Gods and Demons Come to Play

    by Phillip Zarrilli ...
    Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colourful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume:* explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west* includes two cases of controversial of Kathakali experiments* explores the implications for Kathakali of Keralan politicsDuring these ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Edited by Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The opening section explores ways in which later generations ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Dance Matters

    Performing India on Local and Global Stages

    Edited by Pallabi Chakravorty, Nilanjana Gupta ...
    This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic shifts have shaped Indian dance and its negotiation with modernity.. Written by eminent and emergent ... Read more

    $59.99 USD