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This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meani……続きを見る

Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of……続きを見る

Considers the Indian periodical press as a key forum for the production of nationalist rhetoric. It argues that between the 1870s and 1910, the press was the place in which the notion of 'the public……続きを見る

Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idea……続きを見る

This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus ……続きを見る

The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622 studies the conception of Persia in the literary, political and pedagogic writings of Renaissance England and Britain. It argues that wri……続きを見る

Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that ma……続きを見る

Préface du traducteur  La Grande étude  L’Invariable milieu Entretiens de Confucius     INTRODUCTION     CHAPITRE I. HIO EUL.     ……続きを見る

Notice historique sur Lao-tseu (tirée des Mémoires historiques de Sse-ma-tsien) Livre 1 (chapitres 1 à 37) Livre 2 (chapitres 38 à 81) 続きを見る

Mon maître Tch’eng tzeu dit : « La Grande Étude est l’œuvre de Confucius et de ses disciples. Elle est comme la porte qui ouvre la voie de la vertu. L’ordre anciennement suivi dans les études n’est ……続きを見る

Introduction. Livre I. Leang Houei wang. Livre II. Koung suenn Tch’eou. Livre III. T’eng Wenn koung. Livre IV. Li Leou. Livre V. Wan Tchang. Livre VI. Kao tzeu. Livre VII. Tsin sin. Souverains de la……続きを見る

Autrefois l’Orient était loin de nous, le voyage de Constantinople était un voyage considérable, l’Inde apparaissait comme une terre presque inconnue dont on ne savait gu&egrav……続きを見る

A. Le principe qui peut être énoncé, n’est pas celui qui fut toujours. L’être qui peut être nommé, n’est pas celui qui fut de tout temps. Avant les temps, fut……続きを見る

Mon maître Tch’eng tzeu dit : « On appelle milieu ce qui n’incline d’aucun côté, et constant ce qui ne change pas. Le milieu est la voie droite pour tous les êtres, e……続きを見る

A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of pop……続きを見る

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization with ……続きを見る

"Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically--even fraudulently--essays to 'live the life of the mind' should read this book. It's elegant and classy, like caviar and champagne, ……続きを見る

A History of Indian Poetry in English explores the genealogy of Anglophone verse in India from its nineteenth-century origins to the present day. Beginning with an extensive introduction that charts……続きを見る

Anglophone postcolonial studies has been characterized by its secular nature. Yet as the first generation of scholars grapples with mortality, a yearning for spiritual meaning is emerging in many te……続きを見る

After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-definin……続きを見る

Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history bas……続きを見る

With the backdrop of new global powers, this volume interrogates the state of writing in English. Strongly interdisciplinary, it challenges the prevailing orthodoxy of postcolonial literary theory. ……続きを見る

This study considers the recent surge of science fiction narratives from the postcolonial Third World as a utopian response to the spatial, political, and representational dilemmas that attend globa……続きを見る

How are linguistic wars for global prominence literarily and linguistically inscribed in literature? This book focuses on the increasing presence of cosmetic multilingualism in prize-winning fiction……続きを見る

Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features……続きを見る

Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a se……続きを見る

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Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. This in……続きを見る

This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinia……続きを見る

This book explores whether the post-9/11 novels of Rushdie, Hamid, Aslam and Shamsie can be read as part of an attempt to revise modern ‘knowledge’ of the Islamic world, using globally-distributed E……続きを見る