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“ritwick bhattacharjee”

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  • Humanity's Strings

    Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy

    by Ritwick Bhattacharjee ...
    Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy interrogates the nature of reality against fantasy as the two are presented to and created by the human consciousness-a consciousness that is in constant struggle with the omnipresence of misery and the inevitability of death. The book shows that being, pessimism, and fantasy as the strings which are made up of forces unseen, unknown, and ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Reclaiming the Disabled Subject

    Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1)

    by Someshwar Sati, GJV Prasad, Ritwick Bhattacharjee ...
    Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity. The world has only been busy in rectifying the absences that have, ostensibly “dis-abled”, rather than accepting such impaired existences as human beings themselves. The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Science Fiction in India

    Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms

    by Shweta Khilnani, Ritwick Bhattacharjee ...
    Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Book Prize 2023Nominated, 2023 Teaching Literature Book AwardIndian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene. Dalit speculative fiction writer and editor Mimi Mondal is the first SF writer from India to have been nominated for the prestigious Hugo award. In fact, ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Horror Fiction in the Global South

    Cultures, Narratives and Representations

    Edited by Ritwick Bhattacharjee, Saikat Ghosh ...
    Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations believes that the experiences of horror are not just individual but also/simultaneously cultural. Within this understanding, literary productions become rather potent sites for the relation of such experiences both on the individual and the cultural front. It's not coincidental, then, that either William Blatty's The ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Body and Emotion

    The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas

    by Robert R. Desjarlais ...
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    Body and Emotion is a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise. In order to investigate this relationship, Robert R. Desjarlais served as an apprentice healer among the Yolmo Sherpa, a Tibetan Buddhist people who reside in the Helambu region of north-central Nepal. ... Read more

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  • The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

    The Subversion of Modernity

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    Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century.The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future ... Read more

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  • New Times in Modern Japan

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    New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Dialogic Imagination

    Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan

    by Katsuya Hirano ...
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  • Waking Up

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  • A Theory of Everything

    An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality

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    A concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopherKen Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of our time, but his work has seemed inaccessible to readers who lack a background in consciousness studies or evolutionary theory—until now. In A Theory of Everything, Wilber uses clear, non-technical ... Read more

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