Author: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 1236

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Author: Mark T. Arsenault
Publisher: Gold Rush Entertainment Incorporated
ISBN: 9781890305581
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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The Sengoku: Character Sheets book contains 41 illustrated and revised, two-sided character sheets, plus 11 additional blank (un-illustrated) character sheets. Features 41 illustrations of popular character profession templates -- samurai, bushi, priests, mystics, shinobi and more!

Author: Ihara Saikaku
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462900437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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In Comrade Loves of a Samurai, the theme of homosexual love between the samurai is explored. To the old Japanese such love among samurai was quite permissible. The sons of samurai families were urged to form homosexual alliances while youth lasted, and often these loves matured into lifelong companionships. Saikaku describes Japanese love scenes of all kinds with a frankness that has made him a favorite with expurgators, but he discusses different types of love with tenderness and compassion. The Songs of the Geisha included in this volume is a collection of geisha folk songs composed to be sung to the accompaniment of the shamisen. All of the songs have a charmingly nostalgic quality which fitted well with the time and the circumstances for which they were composed. They are intimately personal, expressing the feelings of the geisha towards their sympathetic listeners. Love, frustration, and the futility of hope are their main themes. These lyrics, for all their erotic symbolism, are restrained and tactful, and their erotic beauty must be felt rather than heard. Both books were originally privately published in London in 1928 as a two volume set entitled Eastern Love.

Author: Saikaku Ihara
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Franco Moretti
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849347
Category : Epic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Having coined a new term modern epic, the author analyses the phenomenon, & attempts to situate the works of e.g. Joyce, Proust & Musil within our literary tradition.

Author: Franco Moretti
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1789605296
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Shakespearean tragedy and Dracula, Sherlock Holmes and Ulysses, Frankenstein and The Waste Land-all are celebrated "wonders" of modern literature, whether in its mandarin or popular form. However, it is the fact that these texts are so central to our contemporary notion of literature that sometimes hinders our ability to understand them. Franco Moretti applies himself to this problem by drawing skillfully on structuralist, sociological and psycho-analytic modes of enquity in order to read these texts as literary systems which are tokens of wider cultural and political realities. In the process, Moretti offers us compelling accounts of various literary genres, explores the relationships between high and mass culture in this century, and considers the relevance of tragic, Romantic and Darwinian views of the world.

Author: Mark T. Arsenault
Publisher: Gold Rush Games
ISBN: 9781890305406
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The 64-page book Includes a detailed history and description of a number of historical shinobi (aka "ninja") ryu or clans, NPC write-ups, and a sample shinobi village.Shinobi Ryu contains additional information for both GMs and players, including:New Ryu (clans)!New NPCs!New Shinobi Profession Templates!A Shinobi Village, with full-page map and key!...and more!

Author: 井原西鶴
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Author: Donald Keene
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802150586
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Collection of Japanese works including poetry, prose and drama.

Author: Gary Leupp
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052091919X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 441

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Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior. Few scholars have seriously studied the subject, and until now none have satisfactorily explained the origins of the tradition or elucidated how its conventions reflected class structure and gender roles. Gary P. Leupp fills the gap with a dynamic examination of the origins and nature of the tradition. Based on a wealth of literary and historical documentation, this study places Tokugawa homosexuality in a global context, exploring its implications for contemporary debates on the historical construction of sexual desire. Combing through popular fiction, law codes, religious works, medical treatises, biographical material, and artistic treatments, Leupp traces the origins of pre-Tokugawa homosexual traditions among monks and samurai, then describes the emergence of homosexual practices among commoners in Tokugawa cities. He argues that it was "nurture" rather than "nature" that accounted for such conspicuous male/male sexuality and that bisexuality was more prevalent than homosexuality. Detailed, thorough, and very readable, this study is the first in English or Japanese to address so comprehensively one of the most complex and intriguing aspects of Japanese history.