Search Results for world literature

...G. L. Anderson A Treasury of Asian Literature . Ed. with an Introduction and Commentarles by John D. Yohannan . New York : John Day , 1956 . xx , 487 . Bibliographies, Chronologies. $7.50. Treasury of World Literature . Ed. Dagobert D. Runes . New York : Philosophical Library...

...: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature . By Michael Emmerich . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . xv, 494 pp. ISBN: 9780231162722 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation . By Joshua S. Mostow...

...Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito [email protected] Pacific Literature as World Literature . Edited by Hsinya Huang and Chia-hua Lin . New York : Bloomsbury Academic , 2023 . 228 pp. ISBN: 9781501389320 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 Pacific Literature...

..., are anchored throughout by Xiao's attention to Eileen Chang, whom she takes as the “lynch-pin of this project” (3) and by her commitments to world versus global literature problematics (as signaled by references to Martin Kern's 2017 “Ends and Beginnings of World Literature” and related work by Theodor Adorno...

...Alexander Beecroft Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons . By Wiebke Denecke . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2014 . xi, 347 pp. $85.00 (cloth, ISBN 9780199971848 ). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015  2015 In selecting...

...). Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature . By Jan C. Leuchtenberger . Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan , 2013 . xii, 240 pp. ISBN: 9781929280773 (cloth, also available in paper). Religious...

...Christopher Lupke China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature . Edited by Yingjin Zhang . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1998 . xii, 307 pp. $55.00 (cloth); $19–95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK...

...Douglas Slaymaker Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature . By David M. Rosenfeld . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2002 . xi, 180 pp. $70.00. (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 802 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E...

... of theoretical concerns that inform the study of world literature today. Literary geography, or a “sense of place” (147), as Chan puts it, is the main subject of discussion—the imaginative border crossings of writers whose marginalization by literary hierarchies, both world and national, provides grist...

...Julia Alekseyeva From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema between the Second and the Third Worlds . By Rossen Djagalov . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2020 . xiii, 308 pp. ISBN: 9780228001102 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Anthony Reid The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726–1749: History, Literature and Islam in the Court of Pakubuwana II . By M.C. Ricklefs . Southeast Asian Publications Series of the Asian Studies Association of Australia. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 1998 . xxiv, 391 pp...

...Xiaolu Ma Abstract By interrogating how the original composition and textual reincarnations of Lu Xun's “Diary of a Madman” manifest his idea of an “object in between,” this article celebrates an intertextual event in world literature. It traces how Lu Xun's “Diary of a Madman” came into being...

... reached India were ultimately Eurasian rather than narrowly inter-Asian in scope. This reliance on earlier European translations would later recur with the spread of “world literature” in the postcolonial era. [email protected] © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 inter-Asia...

...Joseph K. Yamagiwa Abstract In the years following the Manchurian adventure, literature in Japan became more and more nationalistic; it fell into a “dark ravine.” Proletarian literature, which had seen a spectacular rise after World War I, declined rapidly after the death of the leftist writer...

...Amry Vandenbosch Abstract In the decade between the beginning of the world depression and the Japanese occupation of the islands there appeared a steadily mounting volume of literature on the Netherlands East Indies. This was a reflection of the increasing interest taken by the world...

...Shannon McCune Abstract As compared with some other countries of the world, Korea is a well mapped land. This brief review lists some of the major maps and sets of maps of the peninsula which are useful to those interested in Korea. Old Korean maps . Korean scholars for their use in studies...

... and Burmese religious behavior. Much of this literature takes as an initial premise that Burma is one of the most actively Buddhistic countries in the world and that we may therefore gain the most intimate understanding of Burmese religious behavior through a perusal of the sacred canons of that faith...

... Literary Sinitic and to criticize Confucian learning and precolonial literature for losing touch with two realities: one, the rapidly changing world; two, the Vietnamese reality that was absent in most of the precolonial literary works written in Literary Sinitic, in which the authors extoled Chinese...