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  • Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

    Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

    by Haruo Shirane

    Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    by Haruo Shirane

    Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    by Haruo Shirane

    This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2002
  • Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    by Haruo Shirane

    Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as w... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2007
  • Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

    Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

    by Haruo Shirane

    This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture b... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

    Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900

    by Haruo Shirane

    This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1997
  • Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production

    Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production

    by Haruo Shirane

    Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium

    Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium

    by Haruo Shirane • Thomas Harper

    The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2015
  • The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    by Burton Watson • Haruo Shirane

    The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
  • Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    by Haruo Shirane • Keller Kimbrough

    Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in E... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2018
  • The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales

    The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales

    by Burton Watson • Haruo Shirane

    Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal ( setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

    by Haruo Shirane • Shirane, Haruo and Suzuki, Tomi and Lurie, David • Tomi Suzuki • David Lurie

    The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • The Longman Anthology Of World Literature: The Twentieth Century (Damrosch World Series #Second Edition, Volume 6)

    The Longman Anthology Of World Literature: The Twentieth Century (Damrosch World Series #Second Edition, Volume 6)

    by David Damrosch • Bruce Robbins • Djelal Kadir • David L. Pike • Haruo Shirane • Sheldon Pollock • Jane Tylus • Marshall Brown • Ursula K. Heise • Pauline Yu • Page DuBois • April Alliston • Sabry Hafez

    <P.The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 20th century. <P>The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts within their cultural contexts, and have selected ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • The Longman Anthology Of World Literature: The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries (Damrosch World Series #Second Edition, Volume D)

    The Longman Anthology Of World Literature: The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries (Damrosch World Series #Second Edition, Volume D)

    by David Damrosch • Bruce Robbins • Djelal Kadir • David L. Pike • Haruo Shirane • Sheldon Pollock • Jane Tylus • Marshall Brown • Ursula K. Heise • Pauline Yu • Page DuBois • April Alliston • Sabry Hafez

    The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume D offers a fresh and highly teachable presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 17th and 18th centuries.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • The Longman Anthology of World Literature: The Nineteenth Century (Damrosch World Ser.)

    The Longman Anthology of World Literature: The Nineteenth Century (Damrosch World Ser.)

    by David Damrosch • Bruce Robbins • Djelal Kadir • David L. Pike • Haruo Shirane • Sheldon Pollock • Jane Tylus • Marshall Brown • Ursula K. Heise • Pauline Yu • Page DuBois • April Alliston • Sabry Hafez

    *Damrosch, 0-321-05536-5, The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F*?The Longman Anthology of World Literature, Volume F offers a fresh presentation of the varieties of world literature from the 20th Century. The editors of the anthology have sought to find economical ways to place texts w... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)

    Think in Public: A Public Books Reader (Public Books Series)

    by Barbara Cassin • Jill Lepore • Judith Butler • Kieran Setiya • Fred Turner • Jan Mieszkowski • Jeremy Adelman • Haruo Shirane • Anne E. Fernald • Matthew Engelke • Imani Perry • James Vernon • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak • Kim Phillips-Fein • Philip Gorski • Frances Negrón-Muntaner • Namwali Serpell • Shannon Mattern • Karen Dunak • John Plotz • Daegan Miller • Christopher Schaberg • Lilly Irani • Joseph Jonghyun Jeon • Suzy Hansen • Max Holleran • Mark McGurl • Stacey Balkan • Nathan Connolly • Najwa Al-Qattan • Destin Jenkins • Andrew Perrin • Lynn French • Salamishah Tillet • Matthew Clair • Ursula K. Guin • Eli Rosenblatt • Rebecca Falkoff • Karl Ashoka Britto • Marah Gubar • Tess McNulty • Nicholas Dames • John R. McNeill

    Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions di... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production

    Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production

    by Ed. • Shirane • Haruo

    Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Hei... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics)

    by Shirane • Haruo • ed. Translated by Burton Watson

    Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from s... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • The Behavior of Conventional and Islamic Bank Deposit Returns in Malaysia and Turkey

    The Behavior of Conventional and Islamic Bank Deposit Returns in Malaysia and Turkey

    by Joshua Charap • Serhan Cevik

    A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
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