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- Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 15.00
?Superbly written and genuinely engaging . . . one of those works that can be read and reread throughout one?s life.? ?Liza Dalby, Los Angeles Times Book Review Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world?s first novel?and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the... more...
- Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 26.95
Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day , Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times. In this guide to Ishiguro?s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents: a biographical survey of Ishiguro?s literary career, and an introduction... more...
- Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 52.50
The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers more...
- University of California Press 2008; US$ 15.95
Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss... more...
- University of Minnesota Press 2008; US$ 67.50
Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the... more...
- ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 40.00
A tour-de-force in Asian American writing, Amy Tan has created works that are essential to high school and undergraduate literature classes and are often book club selections. Reading Amy Tan is a handy resource that offers both groups plot summaries of five of Tan's novels, as well as character and thematic analysis. The handbook also provides an... more...
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 13.50
The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers"a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to Western culturealso relates a tale of two lovers held apart by social strictures. To audiences of the many Chinese ballads, plays, and films based on the story, the tragic... more...
- Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 124.00
This book explores the fiction, memoirs, criticism, and journalism of writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Storm Jameson, William Empson, George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, Harold Heslop, T. H. White, Rebecca West, John Grierson, Margery Allingham, and Stella Gibbons. Distinguishing their work from that of modernists or postmodernists, the volume outlines... more...
- Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 75.60
The Infinite Longing for Home is a groundbreaking study of Ben Okris and K.S. Maniams literary problematization of home in relation to subjectivity and the nation within and beyond the context of Nigeria and Malaysia. Drawing on Lacan, iek, Laclau and Mouffe, and weaving through history, politics, philosophy and... more...
- Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 49.50
This volume brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, spanning all three mainstream cultures of China, Japan, and Korea, along with India. Ranging from Sanskrit poetry of over a thousand years ago to contemporary Chinese fiction, the contributors combine original fi ndings of interest to specialists... more...