The Tale of Genji

Download The Tale of Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396657
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji by : John T. Carpenter

Download or read book The Tale of Genji written by John T. Carpenter and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its vivid descriptions of courtly society, gardens, and architecture in early eleventh-century Japan, The Tale of Genji—recognized as the world’s first novel—has captivated audiences around the globe and inspired artistic traditions for one thousand years. Its female author, Murasaki Shikibu, was a diarist, a renowned poet, and, as a tutor to the young empress, the ultimate palace insider; her monumental work of fiction offers entry into an elaborate, mysterious world of court romance, political intrigue, elite customs, and religious life. This handsomely designed and illustrated book explores the outstanding art associated with Genji through in-depth essays and discussions of more than one hundred works. The Tale of Genji has influenced all forms of Japanese artistic expression, from intimately scaled albums to boldly designed hanging scrolls and screen paintings, lacquer boxes, incense burners, games, palanquins for transporting young brides to their new homes, and even contemporary manga. The authors, both art historians and Genji scholars, discuss the tale’s transmission and reception over the centuries; illuminate its place within the history of Japanese literature and calligraphy; highlight its key episodes and characters; and explore its wide-ranging influence on Japanese culture, design, and aesthetics into the modern era. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

源氏物語

Download 源氏物語 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9784805309216
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis 源氏物語 by : 紫式部

Download or read book 源氏物語 written by 紫式部 and published by . This book was released on 2007-06 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga

Download The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350424943
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga by : Lynne K. Miyake

Download or read book The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga written by Lynne K. Miyake and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another. Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji manga-and manga and anime in general once they went global.

Japan, Inc.

Download Japan, Inc. PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520062894
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Japan, Inc. by : Shotaro Ishinomori

Download or read book Japan, Inc. written by Shotaro Ishinomori and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-07-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Both entertaining and a splendid introduction to the country's economic problems."—Chalmers Johnson

The Tale of Genji

Download The Tale of Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101097396
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji by : Murasaki Shikibu

Download or read book The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridged edition of the world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) A Penguin Classic Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel—and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. In this deftly abridged edition, Tyler focuses on the early chapters, which vividly evoke Genji as a young man and leave him at his first moment of triumph. This edition also includes detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies.

The Tale of Genji

Download The Tale of Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1646592239
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (465 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji by : Waki Yamato

Download or read book The Tale of Genji written by Waki Yamato and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume! Despite Kaoru's love, she longs for Prince Nio—even though he's her sister's husband. The sisters of Uji, who so captivated Kaoru and Prince Nio, had yet another younger sister, Ukifune. Kaoru showers her with affection in place of his dead lover, but after just one brief encounter with Prince Nio, her heart is stirred by that moment of passion, leaving her intensely shaken ...

The Tale of Genji

Download The Tale of Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231534426
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji by : Michael Emmerich

Download or read book The Tale of Genji written by Michael Emmerich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic, reframing our understanding of its significance and influence and of the processes that have canonized the text. Emmerich begins with an analysis of the lavishly produced best seller Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin Genji, 1829–1842), an adaptation of Genji written and designed by Ryutei Tanehiko, with pictures by the great print artist Utagawa Kunisada. He argues that this work introduced Genji to a popular Japanese audience and created a new mode of reading. He then considers movable-type editions of Inaka Genji from 1888 to 1928, connecting trends in print technology and publishing to larger developments in national literature and showing how the one-time best seller became obsolete. The study subsequently traces Genji's reemergence as a classic on a global scale, following its acceptance into the canon of world literature before the text gained popularity in Japan. It concludes with Genji's becoming a "national classic" during World War II and reviews an important postwar challenge to reading the work after it attained this status. Through his sustained critique, Emmerich upends scholarship on Japan's preeminent classic while remaking theories of world literature, continuity, and community.

Reading The Tale of Genji

Download Reading The Tale of Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537204
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Reading The Tale of Genji by : Thomas Harper

Download or read book Reading The Tale of Genji written by Thomas Harper and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the work itself. This sourcebook is the most comprehensive record of the reception of The Tale of Genji to date. It presents a range of landmark texts relating to the work during its first millennium, almost all of which are translated into English for the first time. An introduction prefaces each set of documents, situating them within the tradition of Japanese literature and cultural history. These texts provide a fascinating glimpse into Japanese views of literature, poetry, imperial politics, and the place of art and women in society. Selections include an imagined conversation among court ladies gossiping about their favorite characters and scenes in Genji; learned exegetical commentary; a vigorous debate over the morality of Genji; and an impassioned defense of Genji's ability to enhance Japan's standing among the twentieth century's community of nations. Taken together, these documents reflect Japan's fraught history with vernacular texts, particularly those written by women.

Manga Yokai Stories

Download Manga Yokai Stories PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462922015
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Manga Yokai Stories by : Lafcadio Hearn

Download or read book Manga Yokai Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories! These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts. Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him Corpse Rider: A woman's unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind Wilson's skillful adaptation of Hearn's ghostly tales--along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita--make these fascinating stories come to life. This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.

The Book of Heroes

Download The Book of Heroes PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1421542889
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Book of Heroes by : Miyuki Miyabe

Download or read book The Book of Heroes written by Miyuki Miyabe and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her brother Hiroki disappears after a violent altercation with school bullies, Yuriko finds a magical book in his room. The book leads her to another world where she learns that Hiroki has been possessed by the evil King in Yellow, and that only she can save him...and solve the riddle of why the King is also called "Hero." -- VIZ Media

The Father-Daughter Plot

Download The Father-Daughter Plot PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824824389
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (243 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Father-Daughter Plot by : Rebecca L. Copeland

Download or read book The Father-Daughter Plot written by Rebecca L. Copeland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to the present. Conjoining the classical and the modern with a unified theme reveals an important continuum in female authorship-a historical approach often ignored by scholars. The essays devoted to the literature of the classical period discuss canonical texts in a new light, offering important feminist readings that challenge existing scholarship, while those dedicated to modern writers introduce readers to little-known texts with translations and readings that are engaging and original. Contributors: Tomoko Aoyama, Sonja Arntzen, Janice Brown, Rebecca L. Copeland, Midori McKeon, Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Joshua S. Mostow, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Edith Sarra, Atsuko Sasaki, Ann Sherif.

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives

Download Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441185755
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives by : Shane Denson

Download or read book Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives written by Shane Denson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading international scholars, this book surveys transnational dimensions of graphic narratives, covering popular comics and graphic novels from the USA, Asia and Europe.

Genji

Download Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396975
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Genji by : Melissa McCormick

Download or read book Genji written by Melissa McCormick and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga

Download The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350424937
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (249 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga by : Lynne K. Miyake

Download or read book The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga written by Lynne K. Miyake and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga versions of The Tale of Genji use gender, sexuality, and desire to challenge perceptions of reading and readership, morality and ethics, and what is translatable from one culture to another. Lynne K. Miyake shows that, through their girls, ladies, Boy Love, boys and young men, and informational comics remediations of the tale, the manga Genjis visually, narratively, and affectively rework male and female gazes; Miyake reveals how they gently inject humor, eroticize, gender flip, queer, and simultaneously re-inscribe and challenge heteronormative gender norms. The first full-length study of Genji manga, this book analyses these adaptations within manga studies and the historical and cultural moments that fashioned and sustained them. It also interrogates the circumscribed, in-group aristocratic society and the consumer and production practices of the Heian society that come full circle in the manga versions. The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga utilizes western queer, feminist, sexuality and gender theory and Japanese cultural practices to illuminate the ways in which the Genji tale redeploys itself. Yet it also provides much needed context and explanation regarding the charges of appropriation of prepubescent (fe)male and gay bodies and the utilization of (sexual) violence mounted against Genji manga-and manga and anime in general once they went global.

The Tale of Genji

Download The Tale of Genji PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142437148
Total Pages : 1220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (371 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Tale of Genji by : Murasaki Shikibu

Download or read book The Tale of Genji written by Murasaki Shikibu and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. Supplemented with detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies to help the reader navigate the multigenerational narrative, this comprehensive edition presents this ancient tale in the grand style that it deserves.

Comic Books and American Cultural History

Download Comic Books and American Cultural History PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441172629
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Comic Books and American Cultural History by : Matthew Pustz

Download or read book Comic Books and American Cultural History written by Matthew Pustz and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history.

The Story of Lee, vol. 2

Download The Story of Lee, vol. 2 PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : NBM
ISBN 13 : 1561639753
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The Story of Lee, vol. 2 by : Nami Tamura

Download or read book The Story of Lee, vol. 2 written by Nami Tamura and published by NBM. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally Lee’s dream comes true, as she moves from her native Hong Kong to her dream location: the UK. And with her dream handsome guy: Matt. Exciting! But of course, then comes the reality of being in a new country, of actually living together, and that might not be so easy, especially as Matt’s best friend, Richard, seems more than a little jealous. And once again, wise Uncle Jun turns up to offer his advice. With art by Nami Tamura, a Japanese artist published by Kodansha.