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Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective a guide for teaching
Title
Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective [electronic resource] : a guide for teaching / edited by Barbara Stoler Miller.
ISBN
9781315484594 (electronic bk.)
1315484595 (electronic bk.)
1563242575
9781563242571
1563242583
9781563242588
Published
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1994.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxx, 583 pages).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
"An East Gate book."
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Online version: Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1994
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2020
Series
Columbia project on Asia in the core curriculum
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: The Worlds of Asian Literature
The Imaginative Universe of Indian literature / Barbara Stoler Miler
A Note on Modern Indian Literature / David Rubin
The Imaginative Universe of Chinese Literature / Pauline Yu and Theodore Huters
The Imaginative Universe of Japanese Literature / Haruo Shirane
A Note on Modern Japanese Literature / Paul Anderer
Part II: Indian Texts
Lyric
Classical Sanskrit Lyric: Poetry of Love and Loss / Barbara Stoler Miller
Classical Tamil Poetry and Tamil Poetics / Rajagopal Parthasarathy
Devotional Poetry of Medieval North India / John Stratton Hawley: Lyric Text: Hindi
Lyric Poetry in Urdu: The Ghazal / Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Frances W Pritchett: Lyric Text: Urdu
The Poems and Stories of Rabindranath Tagore / William Radice
Narrative
The Mahābhārata, including the Bhagavad Gita / Barbara Stoler Miller
The Rāmāyana of Valmiki / Robert P Goldman
Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain and Games at Twilight / Robin Jared Lewis
R.K. Narayan's The Financial Expert / Bharati Mukherjee
The Short Stories of Premchand / David Rubin
Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children / Robin Jared Lewis
Samskara: The Passing of the Brahman Tradition / Rajagopal Parthasarathy
Drama
Two Classical Indian Plays: Kalidasa's Sakuntala and Sudraka's Little Clay Cart / Barbara Stoler Miller
Part III: Chinese Texts
Lyric
The Book of Songs / Pauline Yu
The Poetry of Retreat / Pauline Yu
Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics / Burton Watson: Lyric Text: Chinese
Narrative
Chuang Tzu / Shuen-fu Lin
The Records of the Historian / Joseph Roe Allen III
The Journey to the West / Andrew H. Plaks
Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng (Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber) / Anthony C. Yu
Liu E's The Travels of Lao Can / C.T. Hsia
The Stories of Lu Xun / Theodore Huters
Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) by Lao She / David D.W. Wang
Contemporary Chinese Lettres / Theodore Huters.
Timeline of Significant Events in China, 1911-1987, in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Lettres
Drama
Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang ji) (Romance of the Western Chamber) / Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema
Part IV: Japanese Texts
The Man'yoshu and Kokinshu Collections / Donald Keene Lyric text: Japanese
The Poetry of Matsuo Basho / Haruo Shirane
Narrative
The Tale of Genji / Edward G. Seidensticker and Haruo Shirane
A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years; The Pillow Book; and The Confessions of Lady Nijo / Barbara Ruch
"An Account of My Hut" / Paul Anderer
Seven Japanese Tales / Ken K. Ito
Beyond Absolution: Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years and Masks / Barbara Ruch
The Woman in the Dunes / John Whittier Treat
Mishima Yukio, The Allegorist / Richard Torrance
Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country / Michael C. Brownstein
Soseki's Kokoro / Paul Anderer
Drama
Three Plays of the Noh Theater / Thomas Blenman Hare
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki / Donald Keene.
Postscript
East-West Literary Relations: The "Wisdom" of the "East" / Lucien Miller
Summaries of the Masterworks
Historical Timelines: Indian History. Chinese History. Japanese History.
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