Article: A poetics of courtly male friendship in Heian Japan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Heian Japan, centers and peripheries.(Brief ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2007 ;     407 words ...9780824830137 Heian Japan, centers and peripheries. Ed. by Mikael Adolphson et al. U. of Hawai'i Pr. 2007 450 pages $50.00 Hardcover DS856 Mostly ...

Article: The Cambridge History of Japan, volume 2: Heian ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Edited by DONALD H. SHIVELY and WILLIAM H. MCCULLOUGH. Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1999. Pp. xxxv + 754, maps, figs., tables. $120. I must begin this review on a personal note, for I cannot claim to be completely disinterested. At the request of my late colleague Marian Ury, I completed

Article: Ojoyoshu, Nihon Ojo Gokuraku-ki, and the Construction of Pure ...
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The place of narrative in organizing our experience in the world has been the topic of much discussion in recent years. This paper starts from the position developed by the psychologist Jerome Bruner, who argues that there are two distinct modes of thought, the paradigmatic (or logico-scientific)

Article: Faculty authors showcase diverse works from past year
University Wire;  March 26, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Foglesong, an associate professor in the Department of History. Also included was "A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan," by Paul Gordon Schalow, an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures ...

Article: No Can Do
Poetry;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... monologue can be seen in the book's opening section, a sequence of poems spoken by a lady-in-waiting in the court of Heian Japan. The voice of these poems is contemporary but for the most part un-colloquial, and it seems influenced by haiku in its ...

Article: Bridge of Dreams
The Washington Post;  December 23, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... there should be a trio of Genji translations is astonishing. Given the nature of the spoken and written language employed in Heian Japan (described briefly but well in Royall Tyler's introduction to this version), anyone undertaking to translate the book ...

Article: BOOK REVIEW: 'Fox Woman' Kij Johnson's fantastic romance ...
University Wire;  February 5, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... epic. In short, it promises something for everyone. In the book, Kaya no Yoshifuji is an official in the royal court of Heian Japan. When an unforgivable faux pas forces him to retire to an abandoned country estate, he finds the move to be a blessing in ...