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Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective : a guide for teaching

Author: Barbara Stoler Miller
Publisher: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1994.
Series: Columbia project on Asia in the core curriculum.
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Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1994
(OCoLC)606203767
Online version:
Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1994
(OCoLC)623178082
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Barbara Stoler Miller
ISBN: 1563242575 9781563242571 1563242583 9781563242588
OCLC Number: 28414185
Notes: "An East Gate book."
Description: xxx, 583 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain and Games at Twilight / Robin Jared Lewis. R. K. Narayan's The Financial Expert / Bharati Mukherjee. The Short Stories of Premchand / David Rubin. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children / Robin Jared Lewis. Samskara: The Passing of the Brahman Tradition / Rajagopal Parthasarathy. Two Classical Indian Plays: Kalidasa's Sakuntala and Sudraka's Little Clay Cart / Barbara Stoler Miller --
III. Chinese Texts. The Book of Songs / Pauline Yu. The Poetry of Retreat / Pauline Yu. Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics / Burton Watson. Chuang Tzu / Shuen-fu Lin. The Records of the Historian / Joseph Roe Allen III. The Journey to the West / Andrew H. Plaks. Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng (Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber) / Anthony C. Yu. Liu E's The Travels of Lao Can / C. T. Hsia. The Stories of Lu Xun / Theodore Huters. Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) by Lao She / David D. W. Wang. Contemporary Chinese Lettres / Theodore Huters. Timeline of Significant Events in China, 1911-1987, in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Lettres. Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang ji) (Romance of the Western Chamber) / Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema --
IV. Japanese Texts. The Man'yoshu and Kokinshu Collections / Donald Keene. The Poetry of Matsuo Basho / Haruo Shirane. The Tale of Genji / Edward G. Seidensticker and Haruo Shirane. A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years; The Pillow Book; and The Confessions of Lady Nijo / Barbara Ruch. "An Account of My Hut" / Paul Anderer. Seven Japanese Tales / Ken K. Ito. Beyond Absolution: Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years and Masks / Barbara Ruch. The Woman in the Dunes / John Whittier Treat. Mishima Yukio, The Allegorist / Richard Torrance. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country / Michael C. Brownstein. Soseki's Kokoro / Paul Anderer. Three Plays of the Noh Theater / Thomas Blenman Hare. The Love Suicides at Sonezaki / Donald Keene. Postscript: East-West Literary Relations: The "Wisdom" of the "East" / Lucien Miller --
Summaries of the Masterworks --
Historical Timelines. Indian History. Chinese History. Japanese History.
Series Title: Columbia project on Asia in the core curriculum.
Responsibility: edited by Barbara Stoler Miller.

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