South Southeast Asian category: 181 books
Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The book studies the cultural texts—fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports—produced around the world’s worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological Gothic, wherein the city, its landscape...
Remains of Spring
A Naga Village in the No Man’s Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
An idyllic Naga village surrounded by misty hills, Hoyat is located in the No Man’s Land between India and Burma. When Atanu reaches here to begin a new life, he is stunned to see the entire village burnt down. Life in this war zone is a ceaseless cycle of resurrection from the ashes. Yet its people...
T.V. Reddy's Fleeting Bubbles
An Indian Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Prof. Ramesh, with his thorough knowledge of the Western and Indian poetics, as well as the culture of the land is the right person to explain and interpret the poems of T. Vasudeva Reddy's Fleeting Bubbles. This collection of poems holds a mirror as it were to the existing social situations in India....
Mahābhārata (anonyme)
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Le Mahābhārata, ou la « Grande (Guerre) des Bhāratas », est la plus vaste œuvre connue de la littérature hindoue : ses dix-neuf livres ne comptent pas moins de cent vingt mille versets. Immense compilation de récits...
Directing scenes and senses
The thinking of Regie
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
As European theatre directors become a familiar presence on international stages and a new generation of theatre makers absorbs their impulses, this study develops fresh perspectives on Regie, the Continental European tradition of staging playtexts. Leaving behind unhelpful clichés that pit, above...
by Confucius, Séraphin Couvreur
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Préface du traducteur La Grande étude L’Invariable milieu Entretiens de Confucius INTRODUCTION CHAPITRE I. HIO EUL. CHAPITRE II. WEI TCHENG. CHAPITRE III. PA I. CHAPITRE IV. LI...
Howard Barker's art of theatre
Essays on his plays, poetry and production work
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
This collection of essays provides international perspectives on the full range of Barker’s achievements, theatrical and otherwise
Voice of the Buddha
Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads from the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition, yielding fresh insight into all three collections of the...
Raja Yudhisthira
Kingship in Epic Mahabharata
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary...
Rāmāyana (anonyme)
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Le Rāmāyana ou « Geste de Rāma » retrace la vie et la marche (« ayana »), l'offensive guerrière de Rāma, prince d'Ayodhyā, et de son épouse Sītā, fille du roi Janaka.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue...
Mahābhārata (anonyme)
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Le Mahābhārata, ou la « Grande (Guerre) des Bhāratas », est la plus vaste œuvre connue de la littérature hindoue : ses dix-neuf livres ne comptent pas moins de cent vingt mille versets. Immense compilation de récits...
by René Daumal
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Il dialogo con l’India che soggiace a tutti gli scritti di René Daumal nasce quando a vent’anni decide di dedicarsi allo studio del sanscrito: ne scaturirà una personale «Grammatica sanscrita», assoluto capolavoro, che testimonia l’unicità e l’originalità della sua interpretazione del...
Something to Read While Travelling
Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Something to Read While Travelling is an informative and entertaining companion to accompany you on your travels.
Something to Read While Travelling-THAILAND Contains useful information about Thailand, some of which you won’t find in travel guidebooks. Enjoy learning about: Popular tourist...