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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and...
ISBN: 9780295752310
more detailsOld Stacks, New Leaves
The Arts of the Book in South Asia
In the twenty-first century, debates on the future of books and print culture have intensified with the rise of digital technologies, and the contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book...
ISBN: 9780295751115
more detailsThe Objectionable Li Zhi
Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China
Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words and actions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, and perspectives...
ISBN: 9780295748382
more detailsThe Edge of Knowing
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The...
ISBN: 9780295748115
more detailsA Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era
The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy
In 1797, in what is now the Czech Republic, Pinḥas Hurwitz published Book of the Covenant. Nominally an extended commentary on a sixteenth-century kabbalist text, Pinḥas’s publication was in fact a compendium of scientific knowledge...
ISBN: 9780295748061
more detailsSlavery and the Post-Black Imagination
From Kara Walker’s hellscape antebellum silhouettes to Paul Beatty’s bizarre twist on slavery in The Sellout and from Colson Whitehead’s literal Underground Railroad to Jordan Peele’s body-snatching Get Out, this volume offers commentary on contemporary...
ISBN: 9780295746630
more detailsChinese Funerary Biographies
An Anthology of Remembered Lives
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’...
ISBN: 9780295746418
more detailsSymptoms of an Unruly Age
Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries,...
ISBN: 9780295746135
more detailsBhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is...
ISBN: 9780295745503
more detailsHeroines of the Qing
Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary...
ISBN: 9780295744261
more detailsJade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools
The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature...
ISBN: 9780295744476
more detailsNovel Medicine
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical...
ISBN: 9780295744315
more detailsTransforming Monkey
Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic
Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century novel Journey to...
ISBN: 9780295743196
more detailsWriting the South Seas
Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling...
ISBN: 9780295999968
more detailsForming the Early Chinese Court
Rituals, Spaces, Roles
Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and...
ISBN: 9780295742601
more detailsMany Faces of Mulian
The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China
The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language,...
ISBN: 9780295742526
more detailsMobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped...
ISBN: 9780295742236
more detailsFascism and Modernist Literature in Norway
Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all...
ISBN: 9780295742298
more detailsOn Cold Mountain
A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems
In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in...
ISBN: 9780295742687
more detailsReading Orientalism
Said and the Unsaid
The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his...
ISBN: 9780295741635
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