In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in t……続きを見る
Il Murasaki Shikibu nikki (紫式部日記 Diario di Murasaki Shikibu), una delle opere più rappresentative della diaristica femminile dell’XI secolo, descrive l’esperienza dell’autrice come dama articol……続きを見る
著者:Eike Exner
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2021年11月12日
Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this ar……続きを見る
著者:Natsume Soseki
出版社: New York Review Books
発売日: 2012年12月04日
An NYRB Calssics Original
A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of ha……続きを見る
Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic fo……続きを見る
Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male……続きを見る
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary cont……続きを見る
著者:no Yasumaro Ō
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2014年09月09日
Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that h……続きを見る
Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the worldーa process of “worlding” that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A ……続きを見る
How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator? How, too, did he become a major commercial success, churning out nearly two hundred translations over twenty years? Lin Sh……続きを見る
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literatureーpast and present
Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Doppelgänger (double-w……続きを見る
O Japão já foi considerado um "paraíso pornô" por um dos mais conceituados jornais japoneses, uma vez que, em nenhum país do mundo, existe a variedade de prestação de serviços sexuais que se pode en……続きを見る
Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing th……続きを見る
The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrior of the Taira Clan Atsumori. The story of redention of the warrior Kumagai Jiro Naozane that kille……続きを見る
A History of Chinese Literature is THE classic introduction to Chinese literature, which has given to the world exquisite poetry and such classics as Monkey, The Analects of Confucius, the works of ……続きを見る
著者:Rebecca Walkowitz
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2015年08月04日
As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written i……続きを見る
A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her pass……続きを見る
With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the b……続きを見る