Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Handbook of the Ila Language...
An Elementary Introduction to the Taita Language, Eastern Equatorial Africa
Author: Joseph Alfred WrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Taita language
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
A Handbook of the Ila Language (commonly Called the Seshukulumbwe) Spoken in North-western Rhodesia and South-central Africa
Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The 5th Season: New year ku (books 1 & 2 of 4)
Author: Robin D. GillPublisher: Paraverse Press
ISBN: 0974261890
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
In this book, the first of a series, Robin D. Gill, author of the highly acclaimed Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! and Cherry Blossom Epiphany, the largest single-theme anthologies of poetry ever published, explores the traditional Japanese New Year through 2,000 translated haiku (mostly 17-20c). "The New Year," R.H. Blyth once wrote, "is a season by itself." That was nowhere so plain as in the world of haiku, where saijiki, large collections called of ku illustrating hundreds, if not thousands of briefly explained seasonal themes, generally comprised five volumes, one for each season. Yet, the great doyen of haiku gave this fifth season, considered the first season when it came at the head of the Spring rather than in mid-winter, only a tenth of the pages he gave to each of the other four seasons (20 vs. 200). Was Blyth, Zen enthusiast, not enamored with ritual? Or, was he loath to translate the New Year with its many cultural idiosyncrasies (most common to the Sinosphere but not to the West), because he did not want to have to explain the haiku? It is hard to say, but, with these poems for the re-creation of the world, Robin D. Gill, aka "keigu" (respect foolishness, or respect-fool), rushes in where even Blyth feared to tread to give this supernatural or cosmological season - one that combines aspects of the Solstice, Christmas, New Year's, Easter, July 4th and the Once Upon a Time of Fairy Tales - the attention it deserves. With G.K. Chesterton's words, evoking the mind of the haiku poets of old, the author-publisher leaves further description of the content to his reader-reviewers. "The man standing in his own kitchen-garden with the fairyland opening at the gate, is the man with large ideas. His mind creates distance; the motor-car stupidly destroys it." (G.K. Chesterton: Heretics 1905)
The Big Game of Africa
Author: Richard TjaderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Octopussy
Author: Robin D. GillPublisher: Paraverse Press
ISBN: 0974261858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies" and "Japanese Life and Character in Senryu." Blyth regretted having to introduce not the best senryu, but only the best that were clean enough to pass the censors. In this anthology, compiled, translated and essayed by Robin D. Gill, like Blyth, a renowned translator of thousands of haiku, we find 1,300 of the senryu (and zappai) that would once have been dangerous to publish. The book is not just an anthology of dirty poems such as Legman's classic "Limericks" or Burford's delightful "Bawdy Verse," but probing essays of thirty themes representative of the eros - both real and imaginary - of Edo, at the time, the world's largest city. Japanese themselves use senryu for historical documentation of social attitudes and cultural practices; thousands of senryu (and the related zappai), including many poems we might consider obscene, serve as examples in the Japanese equivalent of the OED (nipponkokugodaijiten). The specialized argot, obscure allusions and ellipsis that make reading dirty senryu a delightful riddle for one who knows just enough to be challenged yet not defeated, make them impenetrable to outsiders, so this educational yet entertaining resource has not been accessible to most students of Japanese (and the limited translations prove that even professors have difficulty with it). This book tries to accomplish the impossible: it includes all the information - original poems, pronunciation, explanation, glossary - needed to help specialists improve their senryu reading skills, while refraining from full citations to leave plenty of room for the curious monolingual to skip about the eclectic goodies. [Published simultaneously with two titles as an experiment.]
Zigula-English Dictionary
Author: Walter Henry KisbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Bantu Studies
Author: A Grammar of Dialectic Changes in the Kiswahili Language
Author: Chauncy Hugh StigandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Collections for the Mwamba Language
Author: James Alexander BainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description