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Tanizaki in Western Languages: A Bibliography of Translations and Studies by Adriana Boscaro 9780939512997
$27.66This bibliography of Tanizaki Jun''ichiro''s work cites over 250 translations of his fiction and nearly 200 essays about his life and work, evidence that he is a writer of world renown who has a universal appeal that transcends time and place'Book... -
The Three Perils of Man: War, Women and Witchcraft by James Hogg 9780748638116
RRP: $135.45$122.28This is one of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and daring works. Gillian Hughes's uncovering of the original manuscript in the Fales Library of New York University in August 2001 allows the editors to produce here a text that reflects... -
Inlays of Subjectivity: Affect and Action in Modern Indian Literature by Dr. Nikhil Govind 9780199498727
RRP: $46.43$42.43This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of the last hundred years. Scholarship in Indian literature tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, historical... -
Light on the Path: and an essay on Karma by Mabel Collins 9780835602990
$6.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835602990Author Mabel CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S. -
Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature by Kamei Hideo
$74.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280124Author Kamei HideoFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Conversations with Shotetsu by Robert Brower
$46.63Shotetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shotetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including... -
Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan by R. Keller Kimbrough
RRP: $87.66$67.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280476Author R. Keller KimbroughFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of... -
Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan by John Wallace
$85.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280346Author John WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Creative Lives - Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers by Chandani Lokuge
RRP: $38.70$31.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215440Author Chandani LokugeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press -
Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir by Kathleen Tamagawa
$46.04Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa’s pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish... -
The Magellan Fallacy: Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish by Adam Lifshey
RRP: $38.64$31.13Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa. The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though... -
The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitô, 191116 by Jan Bardsley
$91.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280445Author Jan BardsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912 by Susanna Fessler
$83.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280292Author Susanna FesslerFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of... -
Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism, and Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction by Tonglin Lu
$141.75Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature.Book... -
Dances with Sheep: The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki by Matthew Carl Strecher
$76.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280070Author Matthew Carl StrecherFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of... -
Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji by G. Rowley
$43.80This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko''s involvement with The Tale of Genji. Through her work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel'Book InformationISBN... -
Long, Long Autumn Nights: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901-1940 by Hideo Oguma
$17.70In the deepening twilight before World War II, Oguma Hideo cried out against the darkness that was enveloping men's souls. He died in 1940 at the age of 39, but during his brief lifetime he published some of the most politically powerful poems ever... -
The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies: Politics, Language, Textuality by Michael K. Bourdaghs
$91.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280605Author Michael K. BourdaghsFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of... -
History and Legend: Ideas and Images in the Ming Historical Novels by Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang
$103.23History, according to the Confucian tradition, was a “comprehensive mirror” for aid in government: it was part of the great Way (ta-tao), the tradition of the governing elite. Fiction, which was originally referred to as “the talk of the streets,”... -
An Ordinary Day by Xue Di
RRP: $16.71$10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295340Author Xue DiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 113g -
The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan by Alex Bates
RRP: $29.61$23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280865Author Alex BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling by Kirk A. Denton
RRP: $104.49$89.80Lu Ling (1921-94) was one of modern China's most intensely psychological writers, foregrounding in his many novels and short stories the narrative representation of consciousness and the individual psyche. His mentor Hu Feng (1902-85), a leftist literary... -
The Poetry of Li He by Robert Ashmore
RRP: $39.99$35.72Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without... -
Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan by Dennis Washburn
$88.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512843Author Dennis WashburnFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan... -
New Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker by Aileen Gatten
$53.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512560Author Aileen GattenFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)... -
Cool Melons--Turn to Frogs!: The Life and Poems of Issa by Matthew Gollub
RRP: $23.16$16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889910505Author Matthew GollubFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Tortuga PressPublisher Tortuga PressWeight(grams) 363g -
The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
$45.24Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an... -
Avatars of Vengeance: Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Tradition by Laurence Kominz
$57.38For six centuries the Soga vendetta was Japan's archetypal revenge tragedy, and the Soga brothers epitomized heroic avengers, dedicated yet doomed. In Avatars of Vengeance Laurence Kominz explores the timeless appeal that the Soga story has exerted on... -
Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870-88 by John Pierre Mertz
$78.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280247Author John Pierre MertzFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of... -
Mishima on Stage: and Other Plays by Laurence Kominz
$91.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280421Author Laurence KominzFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of... -
Reading Dream of the Red Chamber: A Companion to Cao Xueqin's Masterpiece by Ronald R. Gray
RRP: $28.37$23.93A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel and serves as a compendium of traditional Chinese life and culture during the Qing Dynasty. This guide offers... -
Translating Chinese Literature by Eugene Chen Eoyang
RRP: $38.69$34.04There is no greater challenge to a translator than the rendering of Chinese, ancient or modern, into English. In this fascinating volume, world-famous scholar-translators talk about their craft from a variety of points of view, confronting key issues of... -
In the Mirror: Literature and Politics in Siam in the American Era by Benedict R. O'G. Anderson
RRP: $28.37$24.24A representative sampling of the short fiction produced by a single generation of Thai writers during the "American Era" in Thailand, the two decades from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, when US involvement in politics and the economy ignited... -
The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West by Longxi Zhang
RRP: $29.66$26.73Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation-hermeneutics-are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi... -
Classical Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic by Karl S.Y. Kao
$50.89In Chinese literary history, the Six Dynasties (317-588) and the T'ang (618-906) were the great creative times for the production of supernatural and fantastic stories in the classical language. This major collection of ninety-six stories, most of them... -
Jungar Tuvan Texts by T. Mawkanuli
RRP: $46.44$39.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933070516Author T. MawkanuliFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint Research Institute for Inner Asian StudiesPublisher Research Institute for Inner Asian... -
Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History by David Der-Wei Wang
RRP: $36.11$31.82Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States... -
Fantasy Cinema - Impossible Worlds on Screen by David Butler 9781906660161
RRP: $23.21$18.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660161Author David ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 215mm *... -
Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems by Masaoka Shiki
RRP: $32.25$24.74Here are graceful and timeless poems by one of Japan's greatest modern writers, rendered by a master translator. Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) is credited with modernizing Japan's two traditional verse forms, haiku and tanka. Born at a time of social and... -
Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma by Leon Hurvitz
RRP: $41.28$31.31Originally published in 1976, Leon Hurvitz's monumental translation of the Lotus Sutra is the work scholars have preferred for decades. Hailed by critics as an "extraordinary" and "magnificent" achievement, Hurvitz's translation is based on the best...