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Harvard East Asian Monographs #274: The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
by Deirdre Sabi Knight  Publisher Comments By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese...
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Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person,...
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Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
by Grace S. Fong Publisher Comments Herself an Author addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods, much...
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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Karatani Kojin Publisher Comments "I have hopes that Karatani's book--one of those infrequent moments in which a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of full national and historical statement--will also have a fundamental impact on literary criticism in the West...
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Writing S.E/Asia in: Against the Grain, Focus on Asian English-Language Literature
by Shirley Geok Li Lim Publisher Comments The author's penetrating essays demonstrate that local speech, national language and national canons have much to tell us, not only about place and region, but about the nations of the imagination....
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Harvard East Asian Monographs #296: When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism
by Gregory Golley Publisher Comments As industrial and scientific developments in early-twentieth-century Japan transformed the meaning of andldquo;objective observation,andrdquo; modern writers and poets struggled to capture what they had come to see as an evolving network of invisible...
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The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal
by Michael Madhu Datta Publisher Comments "The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton-but that is all bosh-nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection to that. I don't think it impossible to equal Virgil, Kalidasa, and...
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The Literature of Leisure and Chinese Modernity
by Charles Laughlin Publisher Comments The Chinese essay is arguably China's most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity--the mid-1930s--is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms the literature of...
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Meeting the Sensei: the Role of the Master in Shirakaba Writers
by Maya Mortimer Publisher Comments The early twentieth century Shirakaba ('White Birch') movement's later involvement with "prewar Japanese nationalism has hitherto caused especially Western scholars to neglect its major significance. <BR>Shirikaba was created by graduates of the...
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Japanese Literature of the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism
by Donald Keene Publisher Comments The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism....
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Keats & English Romanticism in Japan
by Akiko Okada Publisher Comments This book shows why Keats and Romanticism appeal to the Japanese mind, and how English Romantic poetry has found its way into Japanese literature. The first part analyses the reception of Romanticism in Japan before and after World War II and then...
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Womens Images Mens Imagination
by Banani Mukhia Book News Annotation Analyzing works by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyaya, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sarat Chandra Chattopdhyaya, Mukhia (English literature, U. of Delhi, India) looks at how these male Bengali writers situated their women characters within the context of their...
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Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb
by John Whittier Treat Publisher Comments From Einstein and Truman to Sartre and Derrida, many have declared the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be decisive events in human history. None, however, have more acutely understood or perceptively critiqued the consequences of nuclear war...
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Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism
by Donald Keene TOC 1 Fiction -- 2 Poetry, drama, criticism....
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Women and Writing in Modern China
by Wendy Larson Publisher Comments A study of women writers in twentieth-century China....
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Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
by Annie S Omori
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A Brief Critical Survey of Prose Writings in Singapore and Malaysia
by Arthur Yap
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Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection
by Feng Menglong
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Catalog of Burmese Printed Books in The
by Kenneth Whitbread
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Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)
by Barbara Stol Miller
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