Research Catalog

Title

Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective : A guide for teaching / edited by Barbara Stoler Miller.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

Miller, Barbara Stoler.

Description

xxx, 583 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Columbia project on Asia in the core curriculum

Uniform Title

Columbia project on Asia in the core curriculum.

Subject

• Oriental literature > Translations into English
• Comparative literature
• Chinese literature > History and criticism
• Japanese literature > History and criticism
• Indic literature > History and criticism
• Asia > In literature

Note

• Includes index.
• "An East Gate book."

Contents

• Principles of Transliteration and Pronunciation Guide -- Introduction: Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective / Barbara Stoler Miller -- I. The Worlds of Asian Literature. The Imaginative Universe of Indian Literature / Barbara Stoler Miller. A Note on Modern Indian Literature / David Rubin. The Imaginative Universe of Chinese Literature / Pauline Yu and Theodore Huters. The Imaginative Universe of Japanese Literature / Haruo Shirane. A Note on Modern Japanese Literature / Paul Anderer -- II. Indian Texts. Classical Sanskrit Lyric: Poetry of Love and Loss / Barbara Stoler Miller. Classical Tamil Poetry and Tamil Poetics / Rajagopal Parthasarathy. Devotional Poetry of Medieval North India / John Stratton Hawley. Lyric Poetry in Urdu: The Ghazal / Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Frances W. Pritchett. The Poems and Stories of Rabindranath Tagore / William Radice. The Mahabharata, Including the Bhagavad Gita / Barbara Stoler Miller. The Ramayana of Valmiki / Robert P. Goldman.
• Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain and Games at Twilight / Robin Jared Lewis. R. K. Narayan's The Financial Expert / Bharati Mukherjee. The Short Stories of Premchand / David Rubin. Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children / Robin Jared Lewis. Samskara: The Passing of the Brahman Tradition / Rajagopal Parthasarathy. Two Classical Indian Plays: Kalidasa's Sakuntala and Sudraka's Little Clay Cart / Barbara Stoler Miller -- III. Chinese Texts. The Book of Songs / Pauline Yu. The Poetry of Retreat / Pauline Yu. Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics / Burton Watson. Chuang Tzu / Shuen-fu Lin. The Records of the Historian / Joseph Roe Allen III. The Journey to the West / Andrew H. Plaks. Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng (Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber) / Anthony C. Yu. Liu E's The Travels of Lao Can / C. T. Hsia. The Stories of Lu Xun / Theodore Huters. Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) by Lao She / David D. W. Wang. Contemporary Chinese Lettres / Theodore Huters.
• Timeline of Significant Events in China, 1911-1987, in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Lettres. Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang ji) (Romance of the Western Chamber) / Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema -- IV. Japanese Texts. The Man'yoshu and Kokinshu Collections / Donald Keene. The Poetry of Matsuo Basho / Haruo Shirane. The Tale of Genji / Edward G. Seidensticker and Haruo Shirane. A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years; The Pillow Book; and The Confessions of Lady Nijo / Barbara Ruch. "An Account of My Hut" / Paul Anderer. Seven Japanese Tales / Ken K. Ito. Beyond Absolution: Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years and Masks / Barbara Ruch. The Woman in the Dunes / John Whittier Treat. Mishima Yukio, The Allegorist / Richard Torrance. Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country / Michael C. Brownstein. Soseki's Kokoro / Paul Anderer. Three Plays of the Noh Theater / Thomas Blenman Hare. The Love Suicides at Sonezaki / Donald Keene.
• Postscript: East-West Literary Relations: The "Wisdom" of the "East" / Lucien Miller -- Summaries of the Masterworks -- Historical Timelines. Indian History. Chinese History. Japanese History.

ISBN

• 1563242575 (P)
• 1563242583 (C)

LCCN

93024473

OCLC

• 28414185
• ocm28414185

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries