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Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australiaby William B. McGregor
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 185.00This book provides an insightful and highly readable account both of the social setting in which the languages are spoken and of their main structural features. more...
Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimerby J. Thomas Rimer
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 360.00Widely acknowledged as the doyen of twentieth-century Japanese literature, fine art and the performing arts, as well as being renowned for his translations of Zeami and Mori Ogai. more...
Body in Postwar Japanese Fictionby Douglas Slaymaker
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth century Japanese writers, the book analyses the meaning of the body in postwar Japanese discourse. more...
Australian Languagesby R. M. W. Dixon; S. R. Anderson; J. Bresnan; B. Comrie; W. Dressler; C. Ewen; R. Lass
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 84.00Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 40,000 years, speaking about 250 languages. Through examination of published and unpublished materials on each of the individual languages, Professor Dixon surveys the ways in which the languages vary typologically and presents a profile of this long-established linguistic area. more...
The Fantastic In Modern Japanese Literatureby Susan Napier
Taylor & Francis 1995; US$ 64.95An exploration of the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. A wide range of fantasists form the basis for a ground breaking analysis of the fantastic. more...
Postmodern Feminist And Postcolonial Currents In Contemporary Japanese Cultureby Fuminobu Murakami
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 39.95Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers - Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. This book is useful for those studying Japanese literature, and Japanese studies. more...
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literatureby Mark Williams; Rachael Hutchinson
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 49.95Using a cross-section of authors and texts as case studies, this edited volume looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between Self and Other in their work. It is useful for those working in Japanese studies, colonialism, identity studies and nationalism. more...
Paper and Talkby Nicholas Thieberger
Aboriginal Studies Press 1995; US$ 31.00Researching and archiving languages that are no longer spoken, or are still spoken by only a few people, can be a long and involved project. This book aims to inform both community and academic language workers about how to take texts and wordlists from historical sources (e.g. manuscripts and oral recordings) and making them useful in language programs and literature today. more...
The Habitat of Australia's Aboriginal Languagesby Gerhard Leitner; Ian G. Malcolm
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2007; US$ 132.30The languages of Aboriginal Australians have attracted a considerable amount of interest among scholars from such diverse fields as linguistics, political studies, archaeology or social history. As a result, there is a large number of studies on a variety more...
The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literatureby Nina Cornyetz
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 39.95This is a groundbreaking, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s through the Second World War and into the post-war period. more...