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Translating Mount Fuji

Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

By: Dennis Charles Washburn

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Translating Mount Fuji

Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

By: Dennis Charles Washburn

Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Washburn begins with Ueda's Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) and its preoccupation with the distant past, a sense of loss, and the connection between values and identity. He then considers the use of narrative realism and the metaphor of translation in Soseki's Sanshiro; the relationship between ideology and selfhood in Ogai's Seinen; Yokomitsu Riichi's attempt to synthesize the national and the cosmopolitan; Ooka Shohei's post-World War II representations of the ethical and spiritual crises confronting his age; and Mishima's innovative play with the aesthetics of the inauthentic and the artistry of kitsch. Washburn's brilliant analysis teases out common themes concerning the illustration of moral and aesthetic values, the crucial role of autonomy and authenticity in defining notions of culture, the impact of cultural translation on ideas of nation and subjectivity, the ethics of identity, and the hybrid quality of modern Japanese society. He pinpoints the persistent anxiety that influenced these authors' writings, a struggle to translate rhetorical forms of Western literature while preserving elements of the pre-Meiji tradition. A unique combination of intellectual history and critical literary analysis, Translating Mount Fuji recounts the evolution of a conflict that inspired remarkable literary experimentation and achievement.

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Columbia University Press

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023113892X

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9780231138925

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

By: Dennis C. Washburn

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The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

By: Dennis C. Washburn

This book looks at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westernization of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author links the modern in Japan to a sense of cultural discontinuity that may be located in fictional narratives before the encounter of Japan with the West, and he argues that modernity in Meiji Japan can be understood in terms of cultural conflict--not only Japan versus the West, but also Japan's present versus its past. Washburn compares readings from Meiji literature with readings from pre-Meiji and post-Meiji works. He begins with Genji monogatari (early eleventh century) and the Hojoki (1212), continues with stories by Saikaku (late seventeenth century), and ends with a consideration of selected texts from the Meiji period (1868-1912) through the end of the Second World War. Washburn focuses on common thematic elements that recur over time and on such formal considerations as voice and perspective that evolve historically to give expression to the sense of the modern. Using this approach, he is able to look at many individual authors in a new way and to present significant reevaluations of many important texts. This book is also a study of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

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Yale University Press

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0300105258

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9780300105254

The Lonely Warrior

in large print

By: Claude C. Washburn

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The Lonely Warrior

in large print

By: Claude C. Washburn

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387074085

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9783387074086

Tracks on a Page

Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works

By: Frances Washburn

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Tracks on a Page

Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works

By: Frances Washburn

This book details the intersections between the personal life and exceptional writing of Louise Erdrich, perhaps the most critically and economically successful American Indian author ever. Known for her engrossing explorations of Native American themes, Louise Erdrich has created award-winning novels, poetry, stories, and more for three decades. Tracks on a Page: Louise Erdrich, Her Life and Works examines Erdrich's oeuvre in light of her experiences, her gender, and her heritage as the daughter of a Chippewa mother and German-American father. The book covers Erdrich from her birth to the present, offering fresh information and perspectives based on original research. By interweaving biography and literary analysis, the author, who is herself Native American, gives readers a complete and nuanced understanding of the ways in which Erdrich's identity as a woman and an American Indian have influenced her life and her writing. Tracks on a Page is the first, book-length work to approach Erdrich and her works from a non-Euro-Western perspective. It contextualizes both life and writing through the lenses of American Indian history, politics, economics, and culture, offering readers new and intriguing ways to appreciate this outstanding author.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 13

9798216156727

Hopi Katsina Songs

By: Emory Sekaquaptewa,Kenneth C. Hill,Dorothy K. Washburn

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Hopi Katsina Songs

By: Emory Sekaquaptewa,Kenneth C. Hill,Dorothy K. Washburn

Emory Sekaquaptewa dedicated most of his life to promoting Hopi literacy and creating written materials to strengthen the language and lifeway of his people. He understood how intimately cultural ideas are embedded in language, and by transcribing and translating early recordings of katsina songs he helped strengthen the continuity of Hopi religious thought and cultural practices. Sekaquaptewa believed that the advice contained in the katsina songs, some of which were recorded over a century ago, could be used by future generations as guideposts for navigating contemporary life. Hopi Katsina Songs contains Hopi transcriptions, English translations, and detailed commentaries of 150 katsina songs, recorded throughout the twentieth century from all three Hopi mesas, as well as twenty-five recorded by Sekaquaptewa himself. To further continue the creative process of the Hopi legacy, Sekaquaptewa included song fragments with the hope that readers would remember the songs and complete them. These features make his collection an invaluable resource for preserving and teaching Hopi language and culture.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803262884

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9780803262881

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Vol. 3

By: Emory Washburn

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A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Vol. 3

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3368720813

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9783368720810

Symmetries of Culture

Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis

By: Dorothy Koster Washburn,Donald Warren Crowe

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Symmetries of Culture

Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis

By: Dorothy Koster Washburn,Donald Warren Crowe

A very appealing book. It deals with the analysis of repetitive patterns in decorative art as a means of classifying designs. A collaboration by an anthropologist (Washburn, U. Rochester) and a mathematician (Crowe, U. of Wisc.), it makes only the gentlest use of math/geometry, the principles of which are presented. These allow a discussion of color symmetry, one- and two-dimensional patterns, and finite design. History and problems of classification are covered. An important work. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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University of Washington Press

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0295970847

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9780295970844

A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

By: Emory Washburn

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A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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818

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3368184326

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9783368184322

University, Inc.

The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

By: Jennifer Washburn

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University, Inc.

The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education

By: Jennifer Washburn

Our federal and state tax dollars are going to fund higher education. If corporations kick in a little more, should they be able to dictate the research or own the discoveries? During the past two decades, commercial forces have quietly transformed virtually every aspect of academic life. Corporate funding of universities is growing and the money comes with strings attached. In return for this funding, universities and professors are acting more and more like for-profit patent factories: university funds are shifting from the humanities and the less profitable science departments into research labs, and the skill of teaching is valued less and less. Slowly but surely, universities are abandoning their traditional role as disinterested sources of education, alternative perspectives, and wisdom. This growing influence of corporations over universities affects more than just today's college students (and their parents); it compromises the future of all those whose careers depend on a university education, and all those who will be employed, governed, or taught by the products of American universities.

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Basic Books

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078672238X

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9780786722389

Recentering the Self

A Defense of the Ego

By: Michael Washburn

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Recentering the Self

A Defense of the Ego

By: Michael Washburn

In Recentering the Self, Michael Washburn presents a new account of the ego, ego development, and the role of the ego in spiritual life. He starts by tracing the premodern antecedents of the notion of the ego in Greek philosophy and Christian theology and then explains the seventeenth-century emergence of the notion in Descartes's radically new account of the soul’s relation to the body. Reviewing subsequent criticisms of the notion, the author formulates a revised conception of the ego that highlights the ego's inherently two-sided nature, as a subject and agency that, although rooted within interior consciousness, lives originally and primarily in the material, social world. Washburn uses this revised conception of the ego to explain how the two sides of the ego develop in concert over major stages of the human lifespan and why the ego, despite widespread belief to the contrary, plays primarily a positive role in spiritual life. Recentering the Self makes important contributions to the history of philosophy, consciousness studies, phenomenology, developmental psychology, and spiritual or transpersonal psychology.

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State University of New York Press

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1438494688

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9781438494685

Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples

Fabric Structure and Color Symmetry

By: Lynn Shuler Teague,Dorothy Koster Washburn

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Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples

Fabric Structure and Color Symmetry

By: Lynn Shuler Teague,Dorothy Koster Washburn

The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century. Nevertheless, these artifacts remain mysterious in many respects. Teague and Washburn examine these sandals as sources of information on the history of the people known as the Basketmakers. The unique sandals of early southwestern farmers appear in Basketmaker II and reach their greatest elaboration with the complex fabric structures and colorbanded designs of Basketmaker III. The appearance of this footwear coincides with the transition to fully sedentary maize agriculture. The authors address the origins of these sandals and what they may reveal about population movements onto and around the Colorado Plateau and about the cosmology of early farmers.

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UNM Press

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0826353312

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9780826353313

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

By: Dennis C. Washburn

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By: Dennis C. Washburn

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Translating Mount Fuji

Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

By: Dennis Charles Washburn

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Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

By: Dennis Charles Washburn

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Translating Mount Fuji

Translating Mount Fuji

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

The Lonely Warrior

The Lonely Warrior

Tracks on a Page

Tracks on a Page

Hopi Katsina Songs

Hopi Katsina Songs

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

A Treatise on the American Law of Real Property

Symmetries of Culture

Symmetries of Culture

A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

A Treatise on the American Law of Easements and Servitudes

University, Inc.

University, Inc.

Recentering the Self

Recentering the Self

Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples

Sandals of the Basketmaker and Pueblo Peoples

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction

Translating Mount Fuji

Translating Mount Fuji

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