A Birthday Book for Brother Stone

A Birthday Book for Brother Stone

Author: Rachel May

Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13:

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In this unusual and varied birthday book (a Festschrift with a difference), over forty of David Hawkes friends, students, colleagues and admirers from all over the world have come together to wish him a happy birthday, and to celebrate the man, and his scholarly and creative achievements.


You're the Biggest

You're the Biggest

Author: Lucy Tapper

Publisher:

Published: 2017-02-20

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907860041

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You're The Biggest is a delightful book for a new sibling celebrating their role as the biggest following the arrival of a new baby.The story follows two charming foxes, on a colourful journey, discovering the unique role of an older sibling. Beautifully illustrated in full colour this book is hard backed with cheerful end papers.With space for you to write a personal message in the front this book is a wonderful keepsake and makes the perfect gift for a child on the arrival of their new brother or sister.Our Welcome To The World book complements this title and makes the perfect gift for the new baby.Ethically produced from sustainable sources.Made with love, from you to me.


Style, Wit and Word-Play

Style, Wit and Word-Play

Author: Tao Tao Liu

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1443835935

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This collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of David Hawkes (1923–2009), who is remembered as a pre-eminent translator and interpreter of Chinese literature into English, his most famous work being the translation of the classic eighteenth-century Chinese novel, the Hongloumeng or The Story of the Stone. The first part of the collection consists of studies on him and his works; the second part on the art of translation into English from Chinese literature. All the essays are written by scholars in the field from Britain, America, Australia and Hong Kong.


Selected Letters of William Empson

Selected Letters of William Empson

Author: John Haffenden

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2006-03-09

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13: 0191569429

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This edited collection of letters by William Empson (1906-1984), one of the foremost writers and literary critics of the twentieth century, ranges across the entirety of his career. Parts of the correspondence record the development of ideas that were to come to fruition in seminal texts including Seven Types of Ambiguity, The Structure of Complex Words, and Milton's God. The topics of other letters range from Shakespeare's Dark Lady to Marvell's marriage and Byron's bisexuality. Empson relished correspondence that was combative, if not downright aggressive. As a result, parts of this edition take the form of a serial disputation with other critics of the period, including Frank Kermode, Helen Gardner, Philip Hobsbaum, and I. A. Richards. Other notable correspondents include A. Alvarez, Bonamy Dobrée, Leslie Fiedler, Graham Hough, C. K. Ogden, George Orwell, Kathleen Raine, John Crowe Ransom, Christopher Ricks, Laura Riding, A. L. Rowse, Stephen Spender, E. M. W. Tillyard, Rosemond Tuve, John Wain, and G. Wilson Knight. All readers of literary history and criticism will stand to benefit from this edition. Empson is universally credited as the man who 'invented' modern literary criticism, so that all of his writings make a signal addition to the canon of his works. This selection provides a context for the evaluation of Empson's total literary output; and in many letters Empson seeks to defend his ideas against both published and personal attacks. This volume not only fills in all the missing links, it adds up to a completely new volume of critical writings by Empson.


Swallowing Stones

Swallowing Stones

Author: Joyce McDonald

Publisher: Laurel Leaf

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0440226724

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Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.


Dream of the Red Chamber

Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Riccardo Moratto

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-12-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1000812383

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This edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the central theme: literary and translation approaches to China’s greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Hongloumeng (known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone) epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture, the novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature. Its various translations, either full-length or abridged, have been widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and translation studies. Specifically, the use of corpora in the framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps re-address many issues of the novel and its translations, from an innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on translation studies.


The Case for Literature

The Case for Literature

Author: Xingjian Gao

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780300124217

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When Gao Xingjian was crowned Nobel Laureate in 2000, it was the first time in the hundred-year history of the Nobel Prize that this honor had been awarded to an author for a body of work written in Chinese. The same year, American readers embraced Mabel Lee's translation of Gao's lyrical and autobiographical novel Soul Mountain, making it a national best seller. Gao's plays, novels, and short fiction have won the Chinese expatriate an international following and a place among the world's greatest living writers. The bold and extraordinary essays in this volume ... embody an argument for literature as a universal human endeavor rather than one defined and limited by national boundaries. Gao believes in the need for the writer to stand apart from collective movements, regardless of whether these are engineered by political parties or driven by economic or other forces not related to literature. This collection presents Gao's innovative ideas on aesthetics, and it constitutes the very kernel of his thinking on literary creation.--Book jacket.


The Stone Prince

The Stone Prince

Author: Gena Showalter

Publisher: HQN Books

Published: 2010-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780373776214

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Reduced to kissing the marble statue in her garden, Katie James is amazed when it warms to life in her embrace. Trapped for many years as a statue, Jorlan en Sarr must convince Katie to fall in love with him or he will once again turn to marble.


Reading Dream of the Red Chamber

Reading Dream of the Red Chamber

Author: Ronald R. Gray

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-10-12

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1476681147

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A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel and serves as a compendium of traditional Chinese life and culture during the Qing Dynasty. This guide offers a comprehensive introduction and overview to Honglou Meng, providing more than 200 alphabetical entries describing characters, key events and a wide range of topics, with discussion of important themes and narrative techniques. A brief biography of Cao is included, along with a history of Chinese and English critical receptions, an extensive bibliography and recommended reading.


Concepts of Nature

Concepts of Nature

Author: Hans Ulrich Vogel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-08-13

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9004187510

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This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the natural world. The domains covered principally include philosophy, language, poetry, science, and mathematics, and their relations with society, technology, and politics. By analyzing the frequent partial similarities between these great two cultural areas in the context of their overall contrasts, it points the way for the first time to defining accurately the differences that have been critical for world history.