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  • The Moral Narratives of Hayao Miyazaki

    de Eric Reinders ...
    Widely regarded as Japan's greatest animated director, Hayao Miyazaki creates films lauded for vibrant characters and meaningful narrative themes. Examining the messages of his 10 full-length films--from Nausicaa (1984) to The Wind Rises (2013)--this study analyzes each for its religious, philosophical and ethical implications. Miyazaki's work addresses a coherent set of human concerns, including ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Reading Tolkien in Chinese

    Religion, Fantasy and Translation

    de Mr Eric Reinders ...
    Series series Perspectives on Fantasy
    Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts.Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin and The Unfinished Tales, Eric Reinders reveals the mechanics of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem in China

    de Mr Eric Reinders ...
    The most common Buddhist practice in Asia is bowing, yet Buddhist and Christian Responses to the Kowtow Problem is the first study of Buddhist obeisance in China. In Confucian ritual, everyone is supposed to kowtow, or bow, to the Chinese emperor. But Buddhists claimed exemption from bowing to any layperson, even to their own parents or the emperor. This tension erupted in an imperial debate in ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

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  • Anthem

    de Ayn Rand ...
    Anthem is Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence—that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one—the great WE.In all ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Golden Compass and Philosophy

    God Bites the Dust

    Edición de Richard Greene, Rachel Robison ...
    Series Libro 43 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The popularity of the His Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on organized religion. These books have piqued the interest of the contributors to this fascinating volume, who use it to probe the philosophical issues ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Lord of the Rings

    The Mythology of Power

    de Jane Chance ...
    " With New Line Cinema's production of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the popularity of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien is unparalleled. Tolkien's books continue to be bestsellers decades after their original publication. An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Hobbit and Philosophy

    For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way

    de Gregory Bassham, Eric Bronson ...
    Series Libro 10 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic—just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyJ.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lord of the Rings. With the help of some of history's great philosophers, this book ponders a host of ... Leer más

    $17.00 USD

  • The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy

    One Book to Rule Them All

    Edición de Gregory Bassham, Eric Bronson ...
    Series Libro 5 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.Analysis of the popular appeal of The Lord of the Rings (on websites and elsewhere) shows that Tolkien fans are hungry for discussion of the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien

    de Janet Brennan Croft, Leslie A. Donovan ...
    Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women, Perilous and Fair focuses critical attention on views that interpret women in Tolkien's works and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Sabina Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Masculinity in Tolkien

    de Melanie Rost ...
    In a review of "The Return of the King" published in the Observer in 1955, Edwin Muir criticizes that "all the characters are boys masquerading as adult heroes [...] and will never come to puberty [...]. Hardly one of them knows anything about women," and similar observations have been made by critics over time. Yet can Tolkien's portrayal of masculinity truly be reduced to such a simple formula? ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Tower and the Ruin

    J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

    de Michael DC Drout ...
    **Winner of the Tolkien Society Award for Best BookA leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.**No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD