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In three volumes
KEY FEATURE(S) Land (T’oji) is widely recognized as the most significant writings in modern Korean literature. An epic novel in five parts, it follows the fortunes and misfortunes of several generations of the villagers of a traditional Korean farming community.
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, a period of turbulent changes in Korean history, the villagers are caught up in the struggles between the conservative and modernizing forces of their country... |
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Volume 5
Alexander Vovin
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
KEY FEATURE(S) This is the second volume to be published in the 20-volume set. It includes 114 poems (104 tanka, ten choka), traditionally considered to be the zoka genre, although some of them can be classified as benka, since they deal with death and sorrow. It also contains two poems in Chinese.
The volume has several long introductions (all written in Chinese) to the poems that follow. All the poems in this volume were composed between AD 724 and 733, which represents a much greater homogen... |
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Joanna Elfving-Hwang
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
This book discusses perceptions of ‘femininity’ in contemporary South Korea and the extent to which fictional representations in South Korean women’s fiction of the 1990s challenges the enduring assoc... |
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Kyssa'i Yusuf
Kul Gali
KEY FEATURE(S) Learned by heart and copied by hand in the Volga region for generations, Kyssa’i Yusuf (The Story of Joseph) is today the only surviving work by the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature Kul Gali (1183-1236) and is here rendered into English for the first time in its entirety by Fred Beake and Ravil Bukharaev.
Learned by heart and copied by hand in the Volga region for generations, Kyssa’i Yusuf (The Story of Joseph) is today the only surviving work by the founder of Bulgar-Tatar literature Kul Gali (1183-... |
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Its Picture Scrolls, Texts and Romance
EDITED by Richard Stanley-Baker, Jeremy Tambling, Murakami Fuminobu
KEY FEATURE(S) This new volume in Genji studies comprises a collection of six individual essays by leading international scholars addressing the Tale of Genji Scrolls and the Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, narratology, comparative literature and a global view of medieval romance. Uniquely, it also links new critical theory with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interests.
Increasingly, scholarly research views ‘reading’ The Tale of Genji Scrolls as an inseparable part of ‘reading’ The Tale of Genji itself. Hence this book, which is subdivided into three sections: Read... |
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A New English Translation Containing the Original Text, Kana Transliteration, Romanization, Glossing and Commentary
Alexander Vovin
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I
KEY FEATURE(S) This new translation, the lifework of the author, is fully academically oriented. Given that it is the largest Japanese poetic anthology and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka period (AD 592-710) and most of the Nara period (AD 710-784), it is very much more than a work of literature, which has been the single focus of previous translations by Pierson and Suga.
This new translation, the lifework of the author, is fully academically oriented. Given that it is the largest Japanese poetic anthology and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of ... |
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Si-woo Lee
KEY FEATURE(S) The author’s now celebrated quest, through narrative and photography, to capture today’s built and natural environment and way of life along the Min Tong Line (Demilitarized Zone – DMZ) separating the two Koreas, is both a stunning literary and photographic achievement.
Supported by 150 colour photographs, the book by one of Korea’s renowned photographers who is also a well-known peace activist, takes the reader from Chulwon in the east to Kosung in the west, interwe... |
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Won-oh Choi
SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Published in full colour throughout, this highly engaging volume - the first of its kind in English - by one of Korea’s leading scholars on comparative mythology, provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to individual destiny, love and family, the birth of heroes, the universe and ghosts, gods and exorcists. The illustrations comprise a wide variety of old Korean art, including rare shamanist paintings, as well as some contemporary paintings.
The text is divided into two parts: (1) The Bridge Connecting This Life and Eternity, which includes the story of Daebyeol-wang and Sobyeol-wang’s role in the origin of the world, and (2) Humanistic M... |
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Wang Lixiong
KEY FEATURE(S) The original Chinese edition of this apocalyptic novel was first published in Hong Kong and Taiwan in the early 1990s and became an instant best-seller, even in China where it was banned.
Originally published anonymously under the title Huang Huo – ‘Yellow Peril’, the author Wang Lixiong, who has since been acknowledged, describes himself as a conservationist who wrote the book to make... |
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or The Scroll of the Hundred Crabs
Santo Kyoden
KEY FEATURE(S) Carmen Blacker’s spirited translation of Santo Kyoden’s Mukashibanashi Inazuma Hyosh, (from which the title ‘The Straw Sandal’ is taken), considered by Aston to be his masterpiece, reveals a multi-layered and fascinating tale of revenge – Japanese-style, thereby providing a classic example of a classic genre within Japanese literature.
Aston makes the point that the plot of this late-eighteenth-century novel, developed over twenty chapters or episodes, is so complicated that ‘it is impossible to give an adequate summary…’ But he goe... |
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