Spirit Matters: The Transcendant in Modern Japanese Literature 9780824864439

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature 9781474497527

Demonstrates the embodied foundation of figurative, poetic and literary language and form Develops the novel concept of

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Spirit Matters 157174360X, 9781571743602

Stock options and high earnings are no replacement for a sense of meaning and purpose for one's life. Living in a s

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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature 9780822378440

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, play

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Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature 9781351696883, 9781138045101, 9781315172118

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Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature 9780824840648

Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese write

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Translation's Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature 0674660048, 9780674660045

Translation's Forgotten History investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern natio

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Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa 9780824864408

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a pr

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Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century 9780300129595

Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines l

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Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature 9780231558969

David C. Atherton offers a new approach to understanding the relationship between the challenging formal features of ear

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Writing Violence : The Politics of form in Early Modern Japanese Literature 9780231558969, 9780231211543, 9780231211550

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the s

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