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1 online resource (168 pages) : illustrations |
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ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 12 |
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ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; 12.
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1. Korean and Japanese Portraits of Ideal Lovers -- 2. Yamada Bimyo's "Musashino" and the Development of Early Meiji Historical Fiction -- 3. From Atomized to Networked: Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Twentieth-century Chinese Narrative -- 4. Sex for Sex's Sake?The "Genital Writings" of the Chinese Bad-Girl Writers -- 5. In and Out of Home: Bing Xin Recontextualized -- 6. From Enlightenment to Sinology: Early European Suggestions on How to Learn Chinese, 1770-1840 -- 7. Chinese Avant-garde Theater: New Trends in Chinese Experimental Drama near the Close of the Twentieth Century -- 8. Malraux's Hope: Allegory and the Voices of Silence -- 9. Reception, Reappropriation, and Reinvention: Chinese Vernacular Fiction and Elite Women's Reading Practices in Late Choson Korea -- 10. Some Women Writers and their Works in Classical Sanskrit Literature: A Reinterpretation |
| Summary |
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 with a clear style of writing that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader. A unifying concern of the contributors is to give voice to a wide range of literary and scholarly figures who were important in their time |
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Historical treatment of fine and decorative arts |
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Culture and institutions |
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Kunst en kunstgeschiedenis |
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Cultuur en instituten |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Oriental literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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The arts.
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History of art -- art and design styles.
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Society and social sciences.
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Society and culture: general.
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Literature and literary studies.
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Literature: history and criticism.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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ART -- History -- General.
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Oriental literature
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Bellettrie.
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Oost-Azië.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Philip F.
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| ISBN |
9789048508198 |
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9048508193 |
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