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Hardback. Grasses of Remembrance, the second volume of Edwin Cranston's monumental Waka Anthology, carries forward the story of Japanese court poetry, drawing on sources dating from the 890s to the 1080s. The book presents over 2,600 poems in lively and readable translation, including all 795 poems from The Tale of Genji. Translator(s): Cranston, Edwin. Num Pages: 1312 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6147 x 4217 x 80. Weight in Grams: 2331.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804748254
- ISBN
- 9780804748254
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 276.88
€ 276.88
Paperback. A collection of the most significant and enduring works of the most important Japanese literary critic of the 20th century. The selections reflect the wide range of Kobayashi's early work, from meditations on the nature of literature and of criticism to studies of individual Japanese and Western writers. Editor(s): Anderer, Paul. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3JJG; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 12. Weight in Grams: 230.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804741156
- ISBN
- 9780804741156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.07
€ 35.07
Paperback. How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736497
- ISBN
- 9780804736497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.64
€ 42.64
Hardback. How can a movement like Surrealism be transferred, transplanted, or transported from one culture to another, one language to another? This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804734134
- ISBN
- 9780804734134
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 143.99
€ 143.99
Hardback. Examines the way divisions between Chinese rural workers and the state were recast in the 20th century as divisions between intellectuals and peasants. The author argues that this division was a central concern of the literature, resulting in a picture of a repressed peasantry, allowing them to become a focus of political and revolutionary protest. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804733199
- ISBN
- 9780804733199
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.67
€ 96.67
Hardback. This exploration of the life and times of a poet in late medieval Japan is a companion volume to the author's translation of "The Journal of Socho", the travel diary and poetic memoir of Saiokuken Socho (1448-1532), the preeminent linked-verse (renga) poet of his generation. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; 3H; 3JB; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5893 x 4522 x 32. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804732840
- ISBN
- 9780804732840
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.22
€ 120.22
Hardback. This is a materialist-feminist, psychoanalytic analysis of a modern Japanese literary trope--the dangerous woman, linked to archaisms and magical realms and found throughout the Japanese canon--in the works of three 20th-century writers: Izumi Kyoka (1873--1939), Enchi Fumiko (1905--86), and Nakagami Kenji (1946--92). Num Pages: 316 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 615.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732123
- ISBN
- 9780804732123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.54
€ 91.54
Hardback. Examining three works of vernacular fiction dating from 1750 to 1828, this book studies the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804731317
- ISBN
- 9780804731317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.54
€ 91.54
Paperback. This is an imaginative evocation and analysis-through the medium of translations (the author's own) of once popular but now forgotten literature-of the variety of "stories" in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 284
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730914
- ISBN
- 9780804730914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804730013
- ISBN
- 9780804730013
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 97.38
€ 97.38
Hardback. This volume has a dual purpose. It aims to define the state of Japanese literary studies in the field of women's writing and to present cross-cultural interpretations of Japanese material of relevance to contemporary work in gender studies and comparative literature. Editor(s): Schalow, Paul; Walker, Janet A. Num Pages: 536 pages, 5 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 38. Weight in Grams: 915.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804727228
- ISBN
- 9780804727228
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.48
€ 109.48
Paperback. This is a full-length study of Zeami Motokiyo (1363-1443), generally recognized as the greatest playwright of Japan's classical Noh theatre. Num Pages: 336 pages, 5 half-tones 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5766 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 481.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726771
- ISBN
- 9780804726771
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.72
€ 45.72
Paperback. This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3F; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 13. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804726672
- ISBN
- 9780804726672
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.39
€ 47.39
Paperback. Written 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. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 311.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804724647
- ISBN
- 9780804724647
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.64
€ 39.64
Hardback. This literary biography is based primarily on Shinkei's own writings and is supplemented by various external sources. It includes annotated translations of Shinkei's most representative poetry. Num Pages: 492 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 33. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 492
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804722537
- ISBN
- 9780804722537
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.99
€ 108.99
Hardcover. The poets of the Northern Song dynasty were writing after what is thought to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals how their response shaped their literary art. Num Pages: 276 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 25. Weight in Grams: 575.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804721264
- ISBN
- 9780804721264
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.54
€ 96.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSBB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804717199
- ISBN
- 9780804717199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.39
€ 47.39
Paperback. The pioneering authority on Chinese historical phonetics Edwin Pulleyblank has compiled this Lexicon to present the result of his researches on the phonology of Middle Chinese and its evolution to Mandarin. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CFH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 806.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 488
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774803663
- ISBN
- 9780774803663
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 130.39
€ 130.39
Hardback. Editor(s): Lin, Shuen-fu. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 942.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638232
- ISBN
- 9780691638232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 194.21
€ 194.21
Hardback. Editor(s): Plaks, Andrew H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 380 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 714.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 380
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638119
- ISBN
- 9780691638119
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 182.37
€ 182.37