The Heian Court Poetry As World Literature

Author : Edoardo Gerlini
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : 9788866556008

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The Heian Court Poetry as World Literature by Edoardo Gerlini Pdf

What could be the common points between the Literature produced at the imperial court of 9th-10th century in Japan with the one composed in Italy under the rule of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen? Why the Kokinwakashū in Japan and the Sicilian School of Poetry in Italy have been acknowledged as canons for later literary traditions? How did the political power influence the production of court poetry and the role of poets in the court environment? Why two particular poetic forms like the sonnet in Europe and the waka in Japan succeeded to survive until modern times?

Author : Richard Bowring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521539757

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Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji by Richard Bowring Pdf

Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan's greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of as the world's first novel. It is also one of the earliest major works to be written by a woman. This introduction to the Genji sketches the cultural background, offers detailed analysis of the text, discusses matters of language and style and ends by tracing the history of its reception through nine centuries of cultural change. This book will be useful for survey courses in Japanese and World Literature. Because The Tale of Genji is so long, it is often not possible for students to read it in its entirety and this book will therefore be used not only as an introduction, but also as a guide through the difficult and convoluted plot.

Author : Brian Steininger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684175765

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Chinese Literary Form in Heian Japan by Brian Steininger Pdf

"Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Basin to the eastern kingdom of Heian period Japan (794–1185). In this book, Brian Steininger revisits the mid-Heian court of the Tale of Genji and the Pillow Book, where literary Chinese was not only the basis of official administration, but also a medium for political protest, sermons of mourning, and poems of celebration.Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan reconstructs the lived practice of Chinese poetic and prose genres among Heian officials, analyzing the material exchanges by which documents were commissioned, the local reinterpretations of Tang aesthetic principles, and the ritual venues in which literary Chinese texts were performed in Japanese vocalization. Even as state ideology and educational institutions proclaimed the Chinese script’s embodiment of timeless cosmological patterns, everyday practice in this far-flung periphery subjected classical models to a string of improvised exceptions. Through careful comparison of literary and documentary sources, this book provides a vivid case study of one society’s negotiation of literature’s position—both within a hierarchy of authority and between the incommensurable realms of script and speech."

Author : Paul Gordon Schalow
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824861285

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A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan by Paul Gordon Schalow Pdf

Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for evidence that women hoped to move beyond the constraints of marriage politics. Paul Schalow’s original and challenging work inherits these concerns about the transcendence of love and carries them into a new realm of inquiry—the suffering of noblemen and the literary record of their hopes for transcendence through friendship. He traces this recurring theme, which he labels "courtly male friendship," in five important literary works ranging from the tenth-century Tale of Ise to the early eleventh-century Tale of Genji. Whether authored by men or women, the depictions of male friendship addressed in this work convey the differing perspectives of male and female authors profoundly shaped by their gender roles in the court aristocracy. Schalow’s analysis clarifies in particular how Heian literature articulates the nobleman’s wish to be known and appreciated fully by another man.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Goodwill Trading Co., Inc.
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9715741606

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World Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wiebke Denecke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199971848

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Classical World Literatures by Wiebke Denecke Pdf

Classical World Literatures captures the striking similarities between the ways Early Japanese writers wrote their own literature through and against the literary precedents of China and the ways Latin writers engaged and contested Greek precedents.

Author : Earl Roy Miner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry by Earl Roy Miner Pdf

The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004387218

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No Moonlight in My Cup by Anonim Pdf

No Moonlight in My Cup provides translations and commentaries for more than two hundred Sinitic poems (kanshi 漢詩) from the Nara and Heian courts (710-1185) together with a detailed introduction to this important but relatively little-studied literary genre.

Author : Tomiko Yoda
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822385875

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Gender and National Literature by Tomiko Yoda Pdf

Boldly challenging traditional understandings of Heian literature, Tomiko Yoda reveals the connections between gender, nationalism, and cultural representation evident in prevailing interpretations of classic Heian texts. Renowned for the wealth and sophistication of women’s writing, the literature of the Heian period (794–1192) has long been considered central to the Japanese literary canon and Japanese national identity. Yoda historicizes claims about the inherent femininity of this literature by revisiting key moments in the history of Japanese literary scholarship from the eighteenth century to the present. She argues that by foregrounding women’s voices in Heian literature, the discipline has repeatedly enacted the problematic modernizing gesture in which the “feminine” is recognized, canceled, and then contained within a national framework articulated in masculine terms. Moving back and forth between a critique of modern discourses on Heian literature and close analyses of the Heian texts themselves, Yoda sheds light on some of the most persistent interpretive models underwriting Japanese literary studies, particularly the modern paradigm of a masculine national subject. She proposes new directions for disciplinary critique and suggests that historicized understandings of premodern texts offer significant insights into contemporary feminist theories of subjectivity and agency.

Author : Miriam Castorina
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788855180320

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In the garden of the world Italy to a young 19th century Chinese traveler by Miriam Castorina Pdf

Following the pages of Guo Liancheng's journal, the author tries to shed light on its contents and features and to analyze the image of Italy described in the pages of Brief account of the Journey to the West, the earliest firsthand account on the Bel Paese ever published in China.Miriam Castorina received her Ph.D. in History and Civilization of East Asia in 2008 at University of Rome La Sapienza. She studied Mandarin Chinese in Tianjin Nankai University and Beijing Foreign Studies University and spent a year as a visiting scholar at Peking University. Her research focuses on Chinese travel literature, on cultural contacts between Italy and China and on the history of Chinese teaching in Italy, topics on which she has published several articles and books. [Publisher's text].

Author : William George Aston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Japanese literature
ISBN : MSU:31293200035628

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A History of Japanese Literature by William George Aston Pdf

Author : 紫式部
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Japan
ISBN : 4805309210

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源氏物語 by 紫式部 Pdf

Author : Diego Cucinelli,Andrea Scibetta
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788855182591

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Tracing Pathways 雲路 by Diego Cucinelli,Andrea Scibetta Pdf

This volume collects contributions written by eight authors interested in different research areas in East Asian Studies. Divided into a Japanese and a Chinese section, it explores topics ranging from East Asian literatures to contact linguistics and sociology. The Japanese section contains four essays about contemporary Japanese cinema and different aspects of Japanese modern and contemporary literature (i.e. the literary motif of kame naku, ‘crying turtle’, yuri manga, and tenkō bungaku, the ‘literature of conversion’). The Chinese section concerns two main macro-topics: on the one hand, it focuses on issues related to cultural contacts between Italy and China; on the other hand, it deals with Chinese migration to Italy, highlighting socio-historical aspects and cultural production.

Author : Valentina Pedone,Miriam Castorina
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9791221500677

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Words and visions around/about Chinese transnational mobilities 流动 by Valentina Pedone,Miriam Castorina Pdf

This collection gathers the contributions of ten scholars on the topic of transnational cultural and physical mobility originating in China. These contributions aim to open conversations among Chinese Studies scholars by applying a Mobility Studies perspective. Exploring diverse narratives and forms of representation from people of Chinese heritage, the book is divided into three parts that each look closely at the relationship between movement and cultural production. The first part is dedicated to four types of mobility of people from China to Italy, namely tourist mobility (Miriam Castorina), labor mobility (Valentina Pedone), student mobility (Xu Hao), and mobility of social elites (Andrea Scibetta). The second part is dedicated to examples of reverse mobility from Italy to China (Gao Changxu, Chiara Lepri, Giuseppe Rizzuto). The third part focuses on case studies based on mobilities from China to territories other than Italy (Rebecca Ehrenwirth, Martina Renata Prosperi, Giulia Rampolla).

Author : Miriam Castorina,Diego Cucinelli
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788855185059

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Food issues 食事 by Miriam Castorina,Diego Cucinelli Pdf

Food issues 食事. Interdisciplinary Studies on Food in Modern and Contemporary East Asiaconcentrates on the relationship among food, culture, literature, and language in a comparative, transcultural, or literary perspective. The contributions investigate these aspects from different approaches: historical, sociological, anthropological, religious, linguistic, and want to deepen issues such as the symbolic value of food; food as an essential element for the construction of individual identity and a sign of belonging to a community; food as an intercultural medium; food as language and the language of food. The articles included in the volume are organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section and use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to present-day issues, focusing on Food Culture and its declinations.