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1 online resource (464 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Contents by Genre; Preface; Guide to the Reader; Principles of Transliteration and Pronunciation Guide; Introduction Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective; I. The Worlds of Asian Literature; The Imaginative Universe of Indian Literature; A Note on Modern Indian Literature; The Imaginative Universe of Chinese Literature; The Imaginative Universe of Japanese Literature; A Note on Modern Japanese Literature; II. Indian Texts; Lyric; Classical Sanskrit Lyric: Poetry of Love and Loss |
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Classical Tamil Poetry and Tamil PoeticsDevotional Poetry of Medieval North India; Lyric text: Hindi; Lyric Poetry in Urdu: The Ghazal; Lyric text: Urdu; The Poems and Stories of Rabindranath Tagore; Narrative; The Mahābhārata, Including the Bhagavad Gītā; The Rāmāyaṇa of Valmiki; Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain and Games at Twilight; R. K. Narayan's The Financial Expert; The Short Stories of Premchand; Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children; Samskara: The Passing of the Brahman Tradition; Drama; Two Classical Indian Plays: Kālidāsa's Śakuntalā and Śūdraka's Little Clay Cart |
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III. Chinese TextsLyric; The Book of Songs; The Poetry of Retreat; Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics; Lyric text: Chinese; Narrative; Chuang Tzu; The Records of the Historian; The Journey to the West; Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng (Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber); Liu E's The Travels of Lao Can; The Stories of Lu Xun; Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) By Lao She; Contemporary Chinese Lettres; Timeline of Significant Events in China, 1911-1987, in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Lettres; Drama; Story of the Western Wing (Xixiangji) (Romance of the Western Chamber); IV. Japanese Texts; Lyric |
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The Man'yōshū and Kokinshū CollectionsLyric text: Japanese; The Poetry of Matsuo Bashō; Narrative; The Tale of Genji; A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years; The Pillow Book; and The Confessions of Lady Nijō; "An Account of My Hut"; Seven Japanese Tales; Beyond Absolution: Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years and Masks; The Woman in the Dunes; Mishima Yukio, The Allegorist; Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country; Sōseki's Kokoro; Drama; Three Plays of the Noh Theater; The Love Suicides at Sonezaki; Postscript; East-West Literary Relations: The "Wisdom" of the "East"; Summaries of the Masterworks |
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History TimelinesIndian History; Chinese History; Japanese History; Index; Contributors |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781315484594 |
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1315484595 |
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