A Pillow Book

Author : Suzanne Buffam
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781487000271

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A Pillow Book by Suzanne Buffam Pdf

Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, A Pillow Book leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep. The miscellaneous memoranda, minutiae, dreamscapes, and lists that comprise this book-length poem disclose a prismatic meditation on the price of privilege; the petty grievances of marriage, motherhood, art, and office politics; the indignities of age; and the putative properties of dreams, among other themes, set in the dead of winter in a Midwestern townhouse on the eve of the end of geohistory. Feather-light in its touch, quixotic in its turns, and resolutely deadpan in its delivery, A Pillow Book offers a twenty-first-century response to a thousand-year-old Japanese genre which resists, while slyly absorbing, all attempts to define it.

Author : Gergana Ivanova
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231547604

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Unbinding The Pillow Book by Gergana Ivanova Pdf

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the gender of its author, the work’s complex textual history, and its thematic and stylistic depth. In Unbinding The Pillow Book, Gergana Ivanova offers a reception history of The Pillow Book and its author from the seventeenth century to the present that shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions. Ivanova examines how and why The Pillow Book has been read over the centuries, placing it in the multiple contexts in which it has been rewritten, including women’s education, literary scholarship, popular culture, “pleasure quarters,” and the formation of the modern nation-state. Drawing on scholarly commentaries, erotic parodies, instruction manuals for women, high school textbooks, and comic books, she considers its outsized role in ideas about Japanese women writers. Ultimately, Ivanova argues for engaging the work’s plurality in order to achieve a clearer understanding of The Pillow Book and the importance it has held for generations of readers, rather than limiting it to a definitive version or singular meaning. The first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon, Unbinding The Pillow Book sheds new light on the construction of gender and sexuality, how women’s writing has been used to create readerships, and why ancient texts continue to play vibrant roles in contemporary cultural production.

Author : Peter Greenaway
Publisher : Dis Voir Editions
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015047061661

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The Pillow Book by Peter Greenaway Pdf

Script of Greenaway's 1995 film, The pillow book, which was made as an homage to the 10th century story by Sei Shōnagon entitled Makura no sōshi, on which it is loosely based.

Author : Matsuo Basho
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141913650

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho Pdf

'It was with awe That I beheld Fresh leaves, green leaves, Bright in the sun' When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He writes of the seasons changing, the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These writings not only chronicle Basho's travels, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him. Translated with an Introduction by Nobuyuki Yuasa

Author : Aidan Chambers
Publisher : Random House
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407098364

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This Is All by Aidan Chambers Pdf

Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together. She chooses the old and famous Japanese book, 'The Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon, as a model in order to include all kinds of things she has already written as well as the episodes and thoughts she has now as she compiles her book. She tells of her mother (who died when Cordelia was 5) of her father and her aunt Doris (who marry when she is 16), of her love for William Blacklin, the boy with whom she chooses to have her first sex - and with whom she falls deeply in love. She writes about Julie Martin her teacher who helps her spiritually, describes her love affair with an older married man and her terrifying sexual experience with an unbalanced young man who is obsessed with her. The book includes thoughts on being a women, on poetry, music, reading and writing, on being pregnant and finally of her marriage to William. This Is All is an anthology, written in six 'books' of Cordelia's adolescent life, by turns funny, poignant, sad, exciting, fascinating ironic and truthful about topics that parents often do not tell their children. It is a richly entertaining and challenging read.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231549233

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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon by Anonim Pdf

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so eloquently relates. Featuring reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, conversation, poetry, and many other subjects, The Pillow Book is an intimate look at the experiences and outlook of the Heian upper class, further enriched by Ivan Morris's extensive notes and critical contextualization.

Author : Barbara Lazar
Publisher : Tinder Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755389278

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The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai by Barbara Lazar Pdf

I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...

Author : Nik Douglas,Penny Slinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Erotic art
ISBN : 0892810378

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The Pillow Book by Nik Douglas,Penny Slinger Pdf

Author : Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429908467

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The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria by Laura Joh Rowland Pdf

In The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, Laura Joh Rowland once again has written a book in which "an exotic setting, seventeenth-century Japan, and a splendid mystery...make for grand entertainment" (New York Daily News). In the carefully ordered world of seventeenth-century Japan, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is a place where men of all classes can drink, revel, and enjoy the favors of beautiful courtesans. But on a cold winter's dawn, Sano Ichiro--the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People--must visit Yoshiwara on a most unpleasant mission. Within a house of assignation reserved for the wealthiest, most prominent men, a terrible murder has occurred. In a room that reeks of liquor and sex, the shogun's cousin and heir, Lord Mitsuyoshi, lies dead, a flowered hairpin embedded in his eye, in the bed of the famous courtesan, Lady Wisteria. The shogun demands quick justice, but Sano's path is blocked by many obstacles, including the disappearance of Wisteria and her pillow book, a diary that may contain clues. The politics of court life, the whims of the shogun, and interference by his long time rival, Edo's Chief Police Commissioner Hoshina, also hinder Sano in his search for the killer. Sano's wife, Lady Reiko, is eager to help him, but he fears what she may uncover. When suspicion of murder falls upon Sano himself, he must find the real murderer to solve the case and clear his name.

Author : Rebecca Vizard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Pillows
ISBN : 1938461274

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Once Upon a Pillow by Rebecca Vizard Pdf

- Once Upon A Pillow is the first book to highlight a designer making luxury pillows from antique textiles. - Features an extensive glossary of sewing, stitching, and textile terms and categories. Once Upon a Pillow features a stunning collection of pillows and accessories designed by Rebecca Vizard. Celebrated for her innovative use of rare antique textiles -- from the embroidered metallic threads of ecclesiastical vestments to Venetian Fortuny draperies and Central Asian suzanis --her designs present a perfect balance of art and material culture. A favorite of designers and a discerning public, her pillows and accessories adorn some of America's finest homes. An early childhood fascination with textiles eventually led her to create pillows from her growing personal collection of rare textiles and, when Neiman Marcus placed its first order in 1999, B VIZ Design was officially launched. While her collecting forays frequently take her abroad, she returns to her Louisiana roots and its rich history and tradition of decorative arts for inspiration. In addition to Ms. Vizard's home, rooms in a range of styles and periods by such top flight designers as Gerrie Bremermann, Barry Dixon, Suzanne Kasler and Matthew Patrick Smyth are included to illustrate embroidery, applique, tapestry, needlepoint, Fortuny, damask and brocade and suzani and ethnic pillows. A selection of accessories from lighting, gifts and dog wear of Fortuny fabric is also highlighted and an annotated textile glossary is included.Early in her career, while working on interior design projects from New York to New Orleans, Rebecca Vizard noticed a void in the pillow market. Discovering a niche for antique textiles, Vizard focused on designing these one of a kind pillows for clients, and in the process employed many local seamstresses. Soon pillows sold to Neiman Marcus and other exclusive stores. Her pillows frequently grace the covers of national publications, such as House Beautiful, Veranda, Elle Decor, Traditional Home, and Architectural Digest.

Author : Edyta Sitar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Appliqué
ISBN : 173396083X

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Pillow Talk by Edyta Sitar Pdf

Instructions and patterns for twenty-five quilted and applique pillow covers to liven up your interior decor.

Author : Susan Lovett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1723850780

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Sometimes I'm a Pillow by Susan Lovett Pdf

Sometimes I'm A Pillow was written by a children's mental health professional to help children express and reflect on the ways they experience feelings and emotions - mentally, physically and socially. This delightful book engages children with its creative metaphors and colorful, compelling illustrations. The narrator is the adorable, Kai, a child of color who is gender-neutral. The book is intended for children from ages 2 through 10 and can be integrated into family reading time, classroom story time and/or counseling sessions. Author Susan Lovett has worked with youth for over 25 years and she's created a character who is fun, relatable and endearing.

Author : Bruce Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736851101

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The Cool Side of My Pillow by Bruce Campbell Pdf

The Cool Side of My Pillow is a collection of essays by actor, cult icon and New York Times bestselling author Bruce Campbell, sharing some of his experiences and observations outside of the entertainment industry.In Campbell's own words, "What's it about? Mostly, things that matter to me, like putting in the effort, being honest and not treating the environment like it's the enemy. Is it self-help? I hope not, but you will find musings about fame, mysterious carvings, UFOs and my general disdain of loud noises. Is it political? If it is, I'll refund your money. There are no conspiracy theories in The Cool Side of my Pillow, just snarky humor and a sincere desire for us all to find peace on earth."

Author : Eleanor Bron
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000956133

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The Pillowbook of Eleanor Bron, Or, an Actress Despairs by Eleanor Bron Pdf

Author : Camilla Lade
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781387904853

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Across Oceans A Pillow Book by Camilla Lade Pdf

A memoir of a young woman who travels to the remote Japanese countryside and falls in love with a local Japanese monk.