Sexuality and the Literary Karyûkai
Cynthia Gralla
ISBN13: 9781604977288
Date: 28-Dec-10
In breadth and accomplishment, Japan's demimonde literature rivals that of any other national literature; yet very little work analyzing the cultural, psychological, and textual significance of this space has been published to date. This book analyzes representations of the demimonde in Japanese literature and other arts from the beginning of the twentieth century to the early 1990s, through fiction, critical essays, films, photographs, and performances by Nagai Kafû, Kôda Aya, Tanizaki Junichiro, Kuki Shûzô, Mishima Yukio, Hosoe Eikoh, Tamura Taijiro, Murakami Ryû, Ohno Kazuo, and Matsumoto Toshio.
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National Innovation and the Transformation of a Region
Carin Holroyd and Kenneth Coates
ISBN13: 9781604978056
Date: 26-Jul-12
China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan are more than prominent players in the new digital economy. As a collective force, East Asia dominates the global digital shift, producing much of the technology that underpins global digital integration and, now, establishing a steadily expanding presence in terms of digital content. This book argues that the underappreciated scale of East Asian activity in this key sector is setting up the region as a global leader in the new economy, quietly building global dominance in manufacturing, digital implementations and, most recently, digital content production.
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Moving Toward Postconventional Representations
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax
ISBN13: 9781604976113
Date: 28-May-09
Disability and illness are not easy subjects to write about in a direct manner. However, this remarkable book presents a story of illness and disability, experiences which collectively enrich and challenge our understandings of embodiment, narrative, social structures, identity and politics--the full continuum of what it means and has meant, to be human.
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Michael Cribb
ISBN13: 9781604976571
Date: 18-Dec-09
This book is a timely study into the nature of extended discourse and the problems that non-native speakers have in constructing this. It specifically focuses on discourse that is multi-propositional, that is, extended turns and monologues, and analyses this for breaks in coherence and comprehensibility brought about by miscues in semantic and pragmatic features at the discourse level. This book will be of interest to applied linguistics and English-language teaching practitioners around the world as well as academics involved in the testing of spoken English.
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