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  • The Paradoxes of Japan's Cultural Identity

    Modernity and Tradition in Japanese Literature, Art, Politics and Religion

    de Roy Starrs ...
    Series series Distinguished Asian Studies Scholars: Collected Writings
    Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity. Paradoxically, however, many basic elements of Japanese culture are not originally Japanese. Since the beginning of its history, Japan has been one of the world’s major importers of foreign cultures. Its culture was thoroughly hybrid long before that word became fashionable in contemporary global studies. But this ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

    This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large ... Leer más

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  • Soundings in Time

    The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata

    de Roy Starrs ...
    This first full length, and long overdue, study of Kawabata, Japans first Nobel laureate for literature and the most widely known for his novels Snow Country (1960) and Sound of the Mountain (1970). ... Leer más

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  • Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization

    de Roy Starrs ...
    Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia. ... Leer más

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  • An Artless Art - The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya

    A Critical Study with Selected Translations

    de Roy Starrs ...
    Shiga Naoya was a giant of Japanese literature but he is barely known outside Japan. This book is the first study of Shiga to explore in depth his affinities - both aesthetic and philosophic - with the long tradition of Zen art. ... Leer más

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  • A History of Japanese Literature

    From the Manyoshu to Modern Times

    A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature. ... Leer más

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  • Literary Mischief

    Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War

    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of ... Leer más

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  • Biography: Freedom and Destiny

    Enlightening the Path of Human Life

    Traducido por P. Wehrle ...
    The path of an individual human life - our biography - is something of a mystery. Despite the abundance of published biographies and autobiographies of celebrities and historical figures, the scientific study of human biography remains in its infancy, with little understanding of the inherent laws in the path of an individual's life. Yet as Rudolf Steiner shows here, every biography, regardless of ... Leer más

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  • Five Modern Japanese Novelists

    de Donald Keene ...
    The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelistsprofiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata ... Leer más

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  • Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ... Leer más

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  • Can Conflict End?

    Without the fundamental necessity of peace, we cannot possibly understand the greater things of life.With his signature insight and wisdom, world renowned thinker J. Krishnamurti offers a timely manifesto on the roots of conflict. In a series of six prescient talks, he reveals how changing our own behaviours to nurture a more peaceful mindset can create positive change for the wider world. ... Leer más

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  • Japanese Culture

    The Religious and Philosophical Foundations

    Japanese Culture: The Religious and Philosophical Foundations takes readers on a thoroughly researched and extremely readable journey through Japan's cultural history.This much-anticipated sequel to Roger Davies's best-selling The Japanese Mind provides a comprehensive overview of the religion and philosophy of Japan. This cultural history of Japan explains the diverse cultural traditions that ... Leer más

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