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    Performing Comedy and Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Tokyo

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    An introduction to the theatrical art of comic storytelling that originated in the Edo period, Rakugo sheds light on Japanese culture as a whole: its aesthetics, social relations, and learning styles. Enriched with personal anecdotes, Rakugo explicates the art's contemporary performance culture: the image, training and techniques of the storytellers, the venues where they perform, and the role of ... Leer más

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  • Brothel #9

    de Anusree Roy ...
    A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty. ... Leer más

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  • Imperial Illusions

    Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces

    Series series Art History Publication Initiative Books
    In the Forbidden City and other palaces around Beijing, Emperor Qianlong (r. 1736-1795) surrounded himself with monumental paintings of architecture, gardens, people, and faraway places. The best artists of the imperial painting academy, including a number of European missionary painters, used Western perspectival illusionism to transform walls and ceilings with visually striking images that were ... Leer más

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  • Chosen Love

    de Mandy Byrne ...
    During the 1960's a fire destroys Zinab's village. The village is rebuilt to modern standards much to her delight. Zinab likes to think she is a modern young woman. Never the less she submits to an arranged marriage after meeting and approving of her families choice. She marries Ishmael a school teacher.The young couple enjoy a western style honeymoon and meet a European couple staying in the same ... Leer más

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  • Torture Demons

    Japanese Hell Paintings

    de Akai Jigoku ...
    The Jigoku-zoshi (“Hell Scrollsâ€) and similar documents from the 12th century onwards are amongst the earliest, and bloodiest, accounts of human carnage in Japanese art. Victims are burned, drowned in blood and excrement, crushed by fiery rocks, flayed, eaten alive by beasts, and have their bones pulverised by vicious, club-wielding oni (horned, clawed, fanged demons who may have multiple eyes ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Wonder

    Fantasy, marvels, and the imagination of Lord Dunsany

    de Marco Polo ...
    The most renowned travel story of the Middle Ages has never lost its allure. A story of true wonder, Marco Polo's experiences as well as the reported myths, transport us to the heart of Central Asia, China, Indochina, and the Indian Ocean. The original manuscripts were accompanied with illustrations realised from the few descriptions made by the traveller. Following in the footsteps of Marco Polo, ... Leer más

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  • Your Maryland

    Little-Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains

    de Ric Cottom ...
    Four centuries of Maryland’s history in one colorful and dramatic volume.“Good evening, I’m Ric Cottom. Welcome to Your Maryland.” Since 2002, when he first delivered his now-classic radio segment on Maryland history, Ric Cottom has narrated hundreds of little-known human interest stories. Collected here are 72 of his favorite on-air pieces, enhanced with beautiful papercut illustrations by ... Leer más

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  • The Taming of the Shrew (Routledge Revivals)

    A Comparative Study of Oral and Literary Versions

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew has succeeded in surviving in contemporary culture, and has even managed to penetrate to the most modern media of mass communications. This book, first published in 1991, examines some of the different literary and oral versions of The Taming of the Shrew. This book is ideal for students of literature, drama, and theatre studies. ... Leer más

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    Series Libro 75 - Delphi Poets Series
    Affectionately known as the Bard of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore was also a celebrated novelist, short-story writer, essayist and playwright, who introduced new prose and verse forms into Bengali literature, freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. Highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West, Tagore is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of ... Leer más

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