Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Asian - General

The Song of Awakening (chin. Cheng-tao ke, jap. Shodoka), is a seminal text within early Chinese Chan (jap. Zen). Written in the seventh century by the Chinese master Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh (Jap. Yoka Genkaku, known familiarly as Yoka Daishi), this superb poem resonates with Yoka Daishi's great awakening to the truth of reality. As such, it has had a deep influence on the understanding and practice of a long line of Chinese and Japanese Zen masters and practitioners.

Kodo Sawaki uses the poetic expression of Shodoka as a springboard for a wide-ranging commentary that not only...

Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists, often described as "Japan's Graham Greene," and Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece.

Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship...

In this third of five volumes tracing the history of Japanese literature through Mishima Yukio, Jin'ichi Konishi portrays the high medieval period. Here he continues to examine the influence of Chinese literature on Japanese writers, addressing in particular reactions to Sung ideas, Zen Buddhism, and the ideal of literary vocation, michi. This volume focuses on three areas in which Konishi has long made distinctive contributions: court poetry (waka), featuring twelfth-and thirteenth-century works, especially those of Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241); standard linked poetry (renga), from its...

Socialist doctrines had an important influence on Korean writers and intellectuals of the early twentieth century. From the 1910s through the 1940s, a veritable wave of anarchist, Marxist, nationalist, and feminist leftist groups swept the cultural scene with differing agendas as well as shared demands for equality and social justice. In The Proletarian Wave, Sunyoung Park reconstructs the complex mosaic of colonial leftist culture by focusing on literature as its most fertile and enduring expression. The book combines a general overview of the literary left with the intellectual...

Band 2 ist die erste umfassende Darstellung der Entwicklung des chinesischen Romans der ausgehenden Kaiserzeit: vom 16. Jahrhundert bis 1911. Die wenigen auch im Westen bekannten herausragenden Beispiele wie "Der Traum der roten Kammer" oder "Jin Ping Mei" sind Teil einer bis ins 16. Jahrhundert zuruckreichenden Tradition. Thomas Zimmer analysiert die Entstehung der Romankunst in ihren verschiedenen Auspragungen, die textgeschichtlichen Bezuge sowie die Realisierung uber Jahrhunderte entwickelter Themen. Wegen der Anonymitat der Autoren und einer gewissen Randstandigkeit der Gattung liegt...

The essay, representing the original form of Chinese prose, emerged as masterly literary genre in the late Middle Ages. Next to the poem, the essay embodied the expression of the Chinese mind. In the course of history, it developed from a moral tool to a manifestation of joie de vivre. A leisurely look at the world is therefore the characteristic trait of the essay - well into modern times.

Die Japan-Bibliografie versucht erstmals, die deutschsprachige japankundliche Literatur moglichst vollstandig zu erfassen, bibliografisch exakt zu beschreiben und der Forschung und dem interessierten Laien in Buchform zuganglich zu machen. Band 1 der Reihe A beinhaltet zusatzlich Angaben zu Besitznachweisen. Alles Japan betreffende Material wurde erfasst: von der ersten Veroffentlichung im 15. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart.

Monografien, Zeitschriften, Karten sind in der bereits abgeschlossenen Reihe A erschienen, Aufsatze folgen in Reihe B. Mehrere Indices erleichtern das...

Yi T'aejun, Ch'oe Myongik, Im Hwa, So Insik, Ch'oe Chaeso, Pak T'aewon, Kim Namch'on, and O Changhwan, among other Korean writers, lived through...