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  • The Paradoxes of Japan's Cultural Identity

    Modernity and Tradition in Japanese Literature, Art, Politics and Religion

    by Roy Starrs ...
    Series series Distinguished Asian Studies Scholars: Collected Writings
    Japan is widely regarded as having a unique culture and a strong national identity. Paradoxically, however, many basic elements of Japanese culture are not originally Japanese. Since the beginning of its history, Japan has been one of the world’s major importers of foreign cultures. Its culture was thoroughly hybrid long before that word became fashionable in contemporary global studies. But this ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

    by Richard Bullen, Allen Carlson, Koji Yamasaki, Mara Miller, Hiroshi Nara, Akiko Takenaka, Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Michiko Yusa, Cheryl Crowley, Meera Viswanathan, Roy Starrs0, Mikiko Hirayama1, David Bell2, Peter Leech3, Matthew Larking4, Steve Odin5, James McRae6, Robert E. Carter7, C. Michael Rich8, J. Thomas Rimer9, Timothy Unverzagt Goddard0, Carol Steinberg Gould1, Stephen Addiss2, Yuriko Saito3, David E. Cooper4, Graham Parkes5, John C. Maraldo6, Jason M. Wirth7, Professor A. Minh Nguyen8 ...
    This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Soundings in Time

    The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata

    by Roy Starrs ...
    This first full length, and long overdue, study of Kawabata, Japans first Nobel laureate for literature and the most widely known for his novels Snow Country (1960) and Sound of the Mountain (1970). ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization

    by Roy Starrs ...
    Topics include: Government Intervention and Economic Growth in East Asia, Agricultural Nationalism in the Age of Globalization, Japan's Dominance and Multi- Racial Coalitions in Malaysia. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • An Artless Art - The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya

    A Critical Study with Selected Translations

    by Roy Starrs ...
    Shiga Naoya was a giant of Japanese literature but he is barely known outside Japan. This book is the first study of Shiga to explore in depth his affinities - both aesthetic and philosophic - with the long tradition of Zen art. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    Wounded Healer of the Soul

    by Claire Dunne ...
    The first fully illustrated biography of Carl Jung—the great 20th-century thinker famous for his pioneering exploration of dreams, consciousness, and spirituality in psychologyCarl Jung continues to be revered today as a true revolutionary who helped to shape psychology, provided a bridge between Western and Eastern spirituality, and brought into general awareness such fundamental concepts as ... Read more

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  • A History of Japanese Literature

    From the Manyoshu to Modern Times

    by Shuichi Kato, Don Sanderson ...
    A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature. ... Read more

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  • Literary Mischief

    Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War

    by James Dorsey, Douglas Slaymaker, Ogino Anna, Karatani Kojin, Robert Steen, Doug Slaymaker ...
    Series series New Studies in Modern Japan
    Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Biography: Freedom and Destiny

    Enlightening the Path of Human Life

    by Rudolf Steiner, E. Fucke ...
    Translated by P. Wehrle ...
    The path of an individual human life - our biography - is something of a mystery. Despite the abundance of published biographies and autobiographies of celebrities and historical figures, the scientific study of human biography remains in its infancy, with little understanding of the inherent laws in the path of an individual's life. Yet as Rudolf Steiner shows here, every biography, regardless of ... Read more

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  • Five Modern Japanese Novelists

    by Donald Keene ...
    The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelistsprofiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings

    by Sōseki Natsume ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro, Sanshiro, and I Am a Cat. Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature, a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand how and why we read. The text anticipates by decades the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Can Conflict End?

    by J. Krishnamurti ...
    Without the fundamental necessity of peace, we cannot possibly understand the greater things of life.With his signature insight and wisdom, world renowned thinker J. Krishnamurti offers a timely manifesto on the roots of conflict. In a series of six prescient talks, he reveals how changing our own behaviours to nurture a more peaceful mindset can create positive change for the wider world. ... Read more

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