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A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. This volume, the first of a planned eight-volume translation of the entire work, contains thoroughly annotated translations of the first section of the Wen xu

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The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531), is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literary genres. It was one of the primary sources of literary knowledge for educated Chinese in the premodern period, and it is still the essential handbook for specialists in pre-Tang literature. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library

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The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761 pieces of prose and verse by 130 writers from the late Zhou dynasty to the Liang dynasty (ca. 4th century B.C. to 6th century A.D.) The selection includes most of the best examples of fu (rhapsodies) an

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Western Art and Jewish Presence in the Work of Paul Celan examines The Meridian as a base from which to explore the poets work as a whole, following the speechs connections to its sources and to poems written before and after. The discussion focuses on the complex dialogue between Celans Jewishness and his vocation as a Western writer.

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Probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a changing world. This book looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. It argues that world literature is work that gains in translation.

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This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present.

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This book explores the emergence of void aesthetics in fiction, film, and theory in the postwar period in order to assert the disruptive opportunity this aesthetic offers to the post-political present.

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Encourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy.

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Encourages an appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand can complete meaning in epic poetry and in tragedy, comedy, oratory, and in works of history and philosophy.

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A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Njegos and Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, which interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature.

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Fans of science fiction, those interested in the history and literary criticism of the genre, and anyone interested in popular culture and literature, and world literature will find When World Views Collide enlightening and thought-provoking reading.

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To understand Eliot's weighty contribution to the pantheon of modernism, one must take account of his dramatic career. Further, they contain a richly suggestive autobiographical vein that illuminates the persona and psyche of Eliot the playwright and, as well, throwbacks to Eliot as a younger poet and critic.

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This ground-breaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that the before of whiteness is less a retro-futuristic temporisation than a set of strategies and discursive praxes that produce and yet delimit a range of medieval ideological regimes.

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Analyzes our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the 20th-century American novel, this book identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative - the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms "homelessness."

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Shakespearean actor Nick Asbury travel across England, visiting the locations that feature in the famed History cycle of plays, written by the worlds greatest playwright. Giving a unique insight into British history, Asbury also sheds light on the life of an actor revisiting the lands and haunts of the characters he once played.