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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
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: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
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: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
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: ENGCopyright: 1997 -
Envisioning the Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
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: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium
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: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
The Tales of the Heike (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales
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: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
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: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
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: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
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 HafezThe 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: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
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: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
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. McNeillSince 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: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production
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: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales (Translations from the Asian Classics)
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: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Behavior of Conventional and Islamic Bank Deposit Returns in Malaysia and Turkey
A report from the International Monetary Fund.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011