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Author : Suzanne Buffam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996982702
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)
Download or read book A Pillow Book written by Suzanne Buffam and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sponsored by The Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan."
Author : Gergana Ivanova
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231547609
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Unbinding The Pillow Book written by Gergana Ivanova and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the gender of its author, the work’s complex textual history, and its thematic and stylistic depth. In Unbinding The Pillow Book, Gergana Ivanova offers a reception history of The Pillow Book and its author from the seventeenth century to the present that shows how various ideologies have influenced the text and shaped interactions among its different versions. Ivanova examines how and why The Pillow Book has been read over the centuries, placing it in the multiple contexts in which it has been rewritten, including women’s education, literary scholarship, popular culture, “pleasure quarters,” and the formation of the modern nation-state. Drawing on scholarly commentaries, erotic parodies, instruction manuals for women, high school textbooks, and comic books, she considers its outsized role in ideas about Japanese women writers. Ultimately, Ivanova argues for engaging the work’s plurality in order to achieve a clearer understanding of The Pillow Book and the importance it has held for generations of readers, rather than limiting it to a definitive version or singular meaning. The first book-length study in English of the reception history of Sei Shōnagon, Unbinding The Pillow Book sheds new light on the construction of gender and sexuality, how women’s writing has been used to create readerships, and why ancient texts continue to play vibrant roles in contemporary cultural production.
Author : Peter Greenaway
Publisher : Dis Voir Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pillow Book written by Peter Greenaway and published by Dis Voir Editions. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Script of Greenaway's 1995 film, The pillow book, which was made as an homage to the 10th century story by Sei Shōnagon entitled Makura no sōshi, on which it is loosely based.
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549237
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so eloquently relates. Featuring reflections on royal and religious ceremonies, nature, conversation, poetry, and many other subjects, The Pillow Book is an intimate look at the experiences and outlook of the Heian upper class, further enriched by Ivan Morris's extensive notes and critical contextualization.
Author : Aidan Chambers
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407098365
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book This Is All written by Aidan Chambers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20. She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together. She chooses the old and famous Japanese book, 'The Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon, as a model in order to include all kinds of things she has already written as well as the episodes and thoughts she has now as she compiles her book. She tells of her mother (who died when Cordelia was 5) of her father and her aunt Doris (who marry when she is 16), of her love for William Blacklin, the boy with whom she chooses to have her first sex - and with whom she falls deeply in love. She writes about Julie Martin her teacher who helps her spiritually, describes her love affair with an older married man and her terrifying sexual experience with an unbalanced young man who is obsessed with her. The book includes thoughts on being a women, on poetry, music, reading and writing, on being pregnant and finally of her marriage to William. This Is All is an anthology, written in six 'books' of Cordelia's adolescent life, by turns funny, poignant, sad, exciting, fascinating ironic and truthful about topics that parents often do not tell their children. It is a richly entertaining and challenging read.
Author : Barbara Lazar
Publisher : Tinder Press
ISBN 13 : 0755389271
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (553 download)
Download or read book The Pillow Book of the Flower Samurai written by Barbara Lazar and published by Tinder Press. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Kozaisho: Fifth daughter, Woman-For-Play, teller of stories, lover, wife and Flower Samurai. In the rich, dazzling, brutal world of twelfth century Japan, one young girl begins her epic journey, from the warmth of family to the Village of Outcasts. Marked out by an auspicious omen, she is trained in the ancient warrior arts of the samurai. But it is through the power of storytelling that she learns to fight her fate, twisting her life onto a path even she could not have imagined...
Author : Nik Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892810376
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Pillow Book written by Nik Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rosellen Brown
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466884134
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Cora Fry's Pillow Book written by Rosellen Brown and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1994), confronts the challenges that come with a woman's growth toward middle age, reflecting an older Cora's place in her family, community, and the larger world.
Author : Rebecca Vizard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938461279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Once Upon a Pillow written by Rebecca Vizard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Once Upon A Pillow is the first book to highlight a designer making luxury pillows from antique textiles. - Features an extensive glossary of sewing, stitching, and textile terms and categories. Once Upon a Pillow features a stunning collection of pillows and accessories designed by Rebecca Vizard. Celebrated for her innovative use of rare antique textiles -- from the embroidered metallic threads of ecclesiastical vestments to Venetian Fortuny draperies and Central Asian suzanis --her designs present a perfect balance of art and material culture. A favorite of designers and a discerning public, her pillows and accessories adorn some of America's finest homes. An early childhood fascination with textiles eventually led her to create pillows from her growing personal collection of rare textiles and, when Neiman Marcus placed its first order in 1999, B VIZ Design was officially launched. While her collecting forays frequently take her abroad, she returns to her Louisiana roots and its rich history and tradition of decorative arts for inspiration. In addition to Ms. Vizard's home, rooms in a range of styles and periods by such top flight designers as Gerrie Bremermann, Barry Dixon, Suzanne Kasler and Matthew Patrick Smyth are included to illustrate embroidery, applique, tapestry, needlepoint, Fortuny, damask and brocade and suzani and ethnic pillows. A selection of accessories from lighting, gifts and dog wear of Fortuny fabric is also highlighted and an annotated textile glossary is included.Early in her career, while working on interior design projects from New York to New Orleans, Rebecca Vizard noticed a void in the pillow market. Discovering a niche for antique textiles, Vizard focused on designing these one of a kind pillows for clients, and in the process employed many local seamstresses. Soon pillows sold to Neiman Marcus and other exclusive stores. Her pillows frequently grace the covers of national publications, such as House Beautiful, Veranda, Elle Decor, Traditional Home, and Architectural Digest.
Author : Nik Douglas
Publisher : Park Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892816859
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The Erotic Sentiment in the Paintings of India and Nepal written by Nik Douglas and published by Park Street Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • A full-color collection of Eastern erotic art that presents lovemaking as a highly spiritual expression. • Brings together some of the finest examples of erotic art from India and Nepal, including pieces from the private collection of Nepalese royalty. • Includes commentaries and translations of verse from authentic Tantric treatises. • Companion book to The Erotic Sentiment in the Paintings of China and Japan. Hindu culture has always viewed lovemaking as one of the highest forms of spiritual and artistic expression. In the past it was customary to present newlyweds with beautifully painted erotic manuals on their wedding night. These "pillow books," often illustrated by great artists, helped to break down barriers and initiate the young couples into the aesthetics and techniques of physical love. A variety of pillow books are represented in The Erotic Sentiment, bringing together some of the finest examples from India and Nepal, including pieces from the private collection of a Nepalese king. Accompanying these exquisite reproductions are commentaries and translations of verse from authentic Tantric treatises. Together with the paintings, they elevate physical love to the spiritual realm of joyous ecstasy.
Author : Valerie Henitiuk
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619799
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Worlding Sei Shônagon written by Valerie Henitiuk and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2012-06-16 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Makura no Sôshi, or The Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes about life in the Japanese royal court composed around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman known as Sei Shônagon. Its opening section, which begins haru wa akebono, or “spring, dawn,” is arguably the single most famous passage in Japanese literature. Throughout its long life, The Pillow Book has been translated countless times. It has captured the European imagination with its lyrical style, compelling images and the striking personal voice of its author. Worlding Sei Shônagon guides the reader through the remarkable translation history of The Pillow Book in the West, gathering almost fifty translations of the “spring, dawn” passage, which span one-hundred-and-thirty-five years and sixteen languages. Many of the translations are made readily available for the first time in this study. The versions collected in Worlding Sei Shônagon are an enlightening example of the many ways in which translations can differ from their source text, undermining the idea of translation as the straightforward transfer of meaning from one language to another, one culture to another. By tracing the often convoluted trajectory through which a once wholly foreign literary work becomes domesticated—or resists domestication—this compilation also exposes the various historical, ideological or other forces that inevitably shape our experience of literature, for better or for worse.
Author : Laura Joh Rowland
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429908467
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria, Laura Joh Rowland once again has written a book in which "an exotic setting, seventeenth-century Japan, and a splendid mystery...make for grand entertainment" (New York Daily News). In the carefully ordered world of seventeenth-century Japan, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter is a place where men of all classes can drink, revel, and enjoy the favors of beautiful courtesans. But on a cold winter's dawn, Sano Ichiro--the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People--must visit Yoshiwara on a most unpleasant mission. Within a house of assignation reserved for the wealthiest, most prominent men, a terrible murder has occurred. In a room that reeks of liquor and sex, the shogun's cousin and heir, Lord Mitsuyoshi, lies dead, a flowered hairpin embedded in his eye, in the bed of the famous courtesan, Lady Wisteria. The shogun demands quick justice, but Sano's path is blocked by many obstacles, including the disappearance of Wisteria and her pillow book, a diary that may contain clues. The politics of court life, the whims of the shogun, and interference by his long time rival, Edo's Chief Police Commissioner Hoshina, also hinder Sano in his search for the killer. Sano's wife, Lady Reiko, is eager to help him, but he fears what she may uncover. When suspicion of murder falls upon Sano himself, he must find the real murderer to solve the case and clear his name.
Author : Edyta Sitar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733960830
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Pillow Talk written by Edyta Sitar and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instructions and patterns for twenty-five quilted and applique pillow covers to liven up your interior decor.
Author : Eleanor Bron
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Pillowbook of Eleanor Bron, Or, an Actress Despairs written by Eleanor Bron and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1985 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katie Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904989448
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Katie Kelly's Pillow Book written by Katie Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous collection of rude stories and sensuous images selected by one of the Erotic Review's favourite columnists. Katie Kelly's aim is to titillate the mind and stimulate the body as never before. From kinky fiction to fetish photography; from touching love sonnets to the narration of ghostly, lecherous sailors, this is an erotic must-have. With more than 300 pages of rich, delightful rudeness, it's the best possible gift for lover or friend.
Author : Frank Frazetta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878162536
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (625 download)
Download or read book The Frazetta Pillow Book written by Frank Frazetta and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shannon Okey
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811860857
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Pillow Book written by Shannon Okey and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this beautiful sewing book, veteran crafter Okey created more than 25 patterns for every room in the home. Projects range from beginner-friendly throw pillows, shams, and bolsters to more advanced bench pads, ottomans, and oversized floor cushions.
