The Thorn Puller

Author : Hiromi Ito
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781737625315

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The Thorn Puller by Hiromi Ito Pdf

Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the Murasaki Shikibu Prize Caught between two cultures, award-winning author Hiromi Ito tackles subjects like aging, death, and suffering with dark humor, illuminating the bittersweet joys of being alive. The first novel to appear in English by award-winning author Hiromi Ito explores the absurdities, complexities, and challenges experienced by a woman caring for her two families: her husband and daughters in California and her aging parents in Japan. As the narrator shuttles back and forth between these two starkly different cultures, she creates a powerful and entertaining narrative about what it means to live and die in a globalized society. Ito has been described as a “shaman of poetry” because of her skill in allowing the voices of others to flow through her. Here she enriches her semi-autobiographical novel by channeling myriad voices drawn from Japanese folklore, poetry, literature, and pop culture. The result is a generic chimera—part poetry, part prose, part epic—a unique, transnational, polyvocal mode of storytelling. One throughline is a series of memories associated with the Buddhist bodhisattva Jizo, who helps to remove the “thorns” of human suffering.

Author : Barbara E. Thornbury,Evelyn Schulz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498523684

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Tokyo by Barbara E. Thornbury,Evelyn Schulz Pdf

Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination—novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United States, the book focuses on texts produced in Japan since the 1980s. The closing years of the Shōwa period (1926-1989) were a watershed decade of spatial transformation in Tokyo. It was also a time (in Japan, as elsewhere) when conversations about the nature of memory—historical, cultural, collective, and individual—intensified. The contributors to the volume share the view that works of the imagination are constitutive elements of how cities are experienced and perceived. Each of the essays responds to the growing interest in studies on Tokyo with a literary-cultural orientation.

Author : Maria Kanellou,Ivana Petrovic,Chris Carey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780192573797

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Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era by Maria Kanellou,Ivana Petrovic,Chris Carey Pdf

Greek epigram is a remarkable poetic form. The briefest of all ancient Greek genres, it is also the most resilient: for almost a thousand years it attracted some of the finest Greek poetic talents as well as exerting a profound influence on Latin literature, and it continues to inspire and influence modern translations and imitations. After a long period of neglect, research on epigram has surged during recent decades, and this volume draws on the fruits of that renewed scholarly engagement. It is concerned not with the work of individual authors or anthologies, but with the complexities of epigram as a genre, and provides a selection of in-depth treatments of key aspects of Greek literary epigram of the Hellenistic, Roman, and early Byzantine periods. Individual chapters offer insights into a variety of topics, from the dynamic interactions between poets and their predecessors and contemporaries, and the relationship between epigram and its sociopolitical, cultural, and literary background from the third century BCE up until the sixth century CE, to its interaction with its origins, inscribed epigram more generally, other literary genres, the visual arts, and Latin poetry, as well as the process of editing and compilation that generated the collections that survived into the modern world. Through the medium of individual studies the volume as a whole seeks to offer a sense of this vibrant and dynamic poetic form and its world, which will be of value to scholars and students of Greek epigram and classical literature more broadly.

Author : Akiko Uchiyama,Barbara Hartley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000917932

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Border-Crossing Japanese Literature by Akiko Uchiyama,Barbara Hartley Pdf

This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of ‘Japan’, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. The authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan. Several chapters examine the work of exemplary border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner-of-war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.

Author : Udo Becker
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0826412211

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The Continuum Encyclopedia of Symbols by Udo Becker Pdf

An alphabetical reference with more than 1,500 entries that trace symbols to their cultural, religious, or mythological origins, and explain the hidden or encoded meaning that lies concealed beneath objects' and concepts' ordinary, outward appearance.

Author : Elizabeth Simpson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004361713

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The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar by Elizabeth Simpson Pdf

The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, celebrates the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Forty-seven major scholars contribute to this unusual and important volume.

Author : Denise Allen,Linda Borsch,James David Draper,Jeffrey Fraiman,Richard E. Stone,Peter Jonathan Bell,Raymond Carlson,Federico Carò,Paola D’Agostino,Alex Foo,Claudia Kryza-Gersch,Fernando Loffredo,Tommaso Mozzati
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397102

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Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Denise Allen,Linda Borsch,James David Draper,Jeffrey Fraiman,Richard E. Stone,Peter Jonathan Bell,Raymond Carlson,Federico Carò,Paola D’Agostino,Alex Foo,Claudia Kryza-Gersch,Fernando Loffredo,Tommaso Mozzati Pdf

he revival of the bronze statuette popular in classical antiquity stands out as an enduring achievement of the Italian Renaissance. These small sculptures attest to early modern artists' technical prowess, ingenuity, and desire to emulate—or even surpass—the ancients. From the studioli, or private studies, of humanist scholars in fifteenth-century Padua to the Fifth Avenue apartments of Gilded Age collectors, viewers have delighted in the mysteries of these objects: how they were made, what they depicted, who made them, and when. This catalogue is the first systematic study of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection of Italian bronzes. The collection includes statuettes of single mythological or religious figures, complex figural groups, portrait busts, reliefs, utilitarian objects like lamps and inkwells, and more. Stunning new photography of celebrated masterpieces by leading artists such as Antico, Riccio, and Giambologna; enigmatic bronzes that continue to perplex; quotidian objects; later casts; replicas; and even forgeries show the importance of each work in this complex field. International scholars provide in-depth discussions of 200 objects included in this volume, revealing new attributions and dating for many bronzes. An Appendix presents some 100 more complete with provenance and references. An essay by Jeffrey Fraiman provides further insight into Italian bronze statuettes in America with a focus on the history of The Met's collection, and Richard E. Stone, who pioneered the technical study of bronzes, contributes an indispensable text on how artists created these works and what their process conveys about the object's maker. A personal reminiscence by James David Draper, who oversaw the Italian sculpture collection for decades, rounds out this landmark catalogue that synthesizes decades of research on these beloved and complex works of art.

Author : HarrietM.Sonnede Torrens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351539654

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The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages by HarrietM.Sonnede Torrens Pdf

Under the guidance of the leading experts on baptismal fonts and the co-directors of the Baptisteria Sacra Index, the world?s only iconographical inventory of baptismal fonts, a research project at the University of Toronto, this collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. The ?visual? is privileged, whether it is in the metaphysical, literary or empirical realms of scholarship, offering a rich understanding of the powerful role of baptism played in medieval and renaissance society. In the quest for a holistic understanding of the vessels, the settings and contexts, the rituals and the spiritual significance of the font, itself, the contributors have turned to a range of sources, folkloric tales, baptismal records, liturgical sermons, civic records, literary accounts, hagiographies and historical documents about local families, communities and ecclesiastical developments. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primarily ecclesiastical and liturgical documentation. This collection of essays shows the wealth of new information that baptismal fonts can offer when scholars adopt interdisciplinary approaches and engage in readings that question traditional assumptions inherited in scholarship.

Author : Clarissa Sands Arnold
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440186585

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Four Girls in Europe by Clarissa Sands Arnold Pdf

"To think we are really across the Atlantic and have but to look around to find ourselves hurrying to be off the Steamer onto the tug to be brought into Liverpool!" Clarissa Sands Arnold, October 27, 1900. So begins the Diary of a year in the life of one American young woman. The beginning of a journey of wonder as Four Girls and their two female chaperones tour England and the Continent, following the well traveled path of The European Grand Tour. They become part of the throngs of middle class and wealthy Americans trying to acquire some Old World polish while experiencing the ancient history and varied cultures not available back home. Clarissa's account chronicles the experiences and logistics of such a prolonged trip by six women traveling alone, without any male protection. It also serves as a fascinating glimpse into the political and social world of Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : J.H. Breasted
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781174003127

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Ancient Times a History of the Early World by J.H. Breasted Pdf

Author : Seán Hemingway,Kiki Karoglou,Dorothy H. Abramitis,Sophie Descamps-Lequime,Ariel Herrmann,Marsha Hill,Christine Kondoleon,Christopher S. Lightfoot,Carmelo Malacrino,Joan R. Mertens,Olga Palagia,Dominique Robcis,Susan I. Rotroff,Andreas Scholl,Agnes Schwarzmaier,R. R. R. Smith,Jeffrey Spier,Karen Stamm,Lillian Bartlett Stoner,Alessandro Viscogliosi,Ute Wartenberg,Mark Wypyski,Paul Zanker
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396587

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Art of the Hellenistic Kingdoms by Seán Hemingway,Kiki Karoglou,Dorothy H. Abramitis,Sophie Descamps-Lequime,Ariel Herrmann,Marsha Hill,Christine Kondoleon,Christopher S. Lightfoot,Carmelo Malacrino,Joan R. Mertens,Olga Palagia,Dominique Robcis,Susan I. Rotroff,Andreas Scholl,Agnes Schwarzmaier,R. R. R. Smith,Jeffrey Spier,Karen Stamm,Lillian Bartlett Stoner,Alessandro Viscogliosi,Ute Wartenberg,Mark Wypyski,Paul Zanker Pdf

This handsome newly designed addition to The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s symposia series furthers the study of one of the most influential but less known periods of Greek art and culture. It is based on papers given at a two-day scholarly symposium held in conjunction with the award-winning exhibition “Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World,” on view at the Metropolitan in 2016. The twenty diverse essays exemplify the international scope of the Hellenistic arts, which cover the three centuries between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the suicide of Cleopatra in 30 B.C. Subjects range from twenty-first century approaches to museum displays of archaeological material to the circulation of artists and works of art throughout the Mediterranean and the influence of Hellenistic art and its legacy in the ancient Roman world. Among the topics discussed are aspects of royal self-presentation and important elements of iconography and style in coins, gems, mosaics, sculpture, vessels, and wall paintings, in mediums including bronze, faience, glass, marble, silver, and terracotta. Authored by a number of internationally renowned scholars, the essays in this volume highlight the holdings of the Metropolitan and markedly demonstrate the artistic innovations and technical mastery of Hellenistic artists, offering new insights into the vitality and complexity of Hellenistic art. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Emily Carmichael,Vivian Leiber,Kathryn Shay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440622496

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More Lipstick Chronicles by Emily Carmichael,Vivian Leiber,Kathryn Shay Pdf

The Lipstick Chronicles introduced readers to Elyssa, Alix, Dana, Carole, and Robin, five best friends who make up Allheart.com, an online greeting card company in Washington, D.C. Now they're back in the second collection of interconnecting stories of women, love, sex, dating, friendship, and breaking the rules of romance. Elyssa-The powerful CEO is about to find herself powerless against the charms of a certain man determined to turn her life upside down... Dana-She's a whiz at snappy greetings, clever rejoinders, and sweet sentiments. But there are no words to describe where love is taking the queen of the one-night stands... Carole-She's just this side of jaded after the end of her miserable marriage. But as she's about to learn, the Y chromosome can still yield some satisfying surprises... As for Robyn and Alix...Between finding a Mr. Right who isn't all wrong and maintaining Allheart's booming business, they have their hands full keeping Elyssa happy, Dana calm, and Carole in line and under control. Wedding bells are going to be ringing for one of them soon, and they're all about to discover just what friends are for...

Author : Mustafa Koçak,Detlev Kreikenbom
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1117 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110711523

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Sculptures from Roman Syria II by Mustafa Koçak,Detlev Kreikenbom Pdf

For the first time, this publication comprehensively documents and analyzes the Greek and Roman statuary discovered to date in the greater area of Syria. The text portion describes nearly all monuments in detail and classifies them in the context of the history of ancient sculpture. The associated volume of plates documents every item in detail, typically with four photographic views.

Author : Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429711077

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Key Monuments Of The Italian Renaissance by Laurie Schneider Adams Pdf

Organized chronologically from early Renaissance precursors to the Mannerist movement, from Giotto to Titian, Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance describes and analyzes in depth from various points of view major works and major artists, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Artists included are Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Lorenzetti, Gh

Author : Johann Gottfried Herder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226327556

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Sculpture by Johann Gottfried Herder Pdf

Herder combines rationalist and empiricist thought with a wide range of sources - from the classics to Norse legend, Shakespeare to the Bible - to illuminate the ways we experience sculpture.