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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Asian Literature"”.
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Violence, Militarism and the Environment in Contemporary South Asian Literature
Current literary scholarship on the rise in violence and militarism within South
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Transforming Limits: Home, Literary Activism and Engagement in South Asian Literature
… significant and recurring preoccupation of South Asian literary fiction and non - fiction predominantly in the twentieth century, with some notable extensions into the first decade o f the twenty - first century. Relatedly, it considers the centrality of ‘home’ in cultural, social and political …
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"Lack, Loss and Displacement: Renarrativizing ""Chineseness"" Through the Aesthetics of Southeast Asian Literature and Film"
"This dissertation focuses on Southeast Asian literature and film to discuss how overseas Chinese artists use narrative as a tool to reevaluate and renegotiate their hybrid identity. Through this evaluation, the theoretical notion of ""Chineseness"" is reconstructed within a temporal and spatial …
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In search of succession planning in school organizations : a comparative case study of school leadership in the Philippines and Indonesia
… little is known from the scant empirical literature hitherto about succession planning in education, especially in the Philippines and Indonesia. The researcher gathered the data from four school principals (two per country) and analyzed them thematically with Quirkos software. Findings …
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A Comparison of Chinese and Taiwan Sign Languages: Towards a New Model for Sign Language Comparison
It is commonly believed that sign language is a universal language. However,linguists researching sign languages have demonstrated that deaf people from differentcommunities have their own languages. This research is aimed at creating a synchroniclexical comparison of Taiwan Sign Language (TSL) and …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… Philip Whalen" examines the influence of East Asian literature and philosophy on post-World War II American poetry. Kerouac's "Desolation Blues," Snyder's "On Vulture Peak," and Whalen's "The Slop Barrel" were all written one year after the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco where …
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Old Japanese in the "Man'yousyuu", books one and two: Grammar, translations, and analytical concordance
I created a comprehensive analytic concordance of the first two books of the Man'yousyuu, an Old Japanese anthology of poetry. In addition, I transcribed all 234 poems in the corpus using a transcription system which faithfully and consistently indicates consonant and vowel distinctions reflected …
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A Daoist perspective on George Oppen's poetry and poetics
I use Daoist principles of ontological simplicity and the unmediated relationship between man and the ten thousand things to analyze George Oppen’s poems and poetics. First, I conduct a survey of the current state of American poetry studies and Oppen studies in China. Second, I examine Oppen’s …
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The Accommodation City : Private Low-income Housing and Urban Space in Dhaka and Mumbai
… managed and governed, and coexist across South Asian contexts. In Dhaka, my case studies focus on ‘Mess Housing’ typology in two neighbourhoods’: Rayerbazaar and Mirpur; while in Mumbai, it focuses on ‘Dormitory’ and ‘Work-Residence’ typologies in three neighbourhoods’: Vikhroli, Nahur and …
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Migrating memories: Power and transcultural memory in contemporary South Asian fiction
… does power have on memory? Second, how does literature help us “locate” or make visible the processes of memory transmission within and between subaltern groups whose actions are patrolled and, at times, curtailed? These questions are central to the future trajectories of memory studies, …
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Ge Hong and the Making of an Emergency Medicine Formulary
The Zhouhou beiji fang 肘後備急方 (Emergency formulas to keep on hand) was compiled in the fourth century by the Daoist, alchemist, and scholar, Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343) under the name Zhouhou jiucu 肘後救卒 ([Formulas for] resuscitation to keep on hand). Since its creation, the text has undergone numerous …
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A Desire for Meaning: Ḳhān-i Ārzū's Philology and the Place of India in the Eighteenth-Century Persianate World
… world's main center for the patronage of Persian literature and scholarship. However, our understanding of the societal role of Indo-Persian (that is, Persian used in South Asia) is still hazy in part because the end of Persian as a language of power in India has been so historiographically …
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Re-envisioning Literature and History: An Annotated Translation of Two Short Stories by Jin Renshun
Jin Renshun (b. 1970) is one of the most influential Chinese female authors born during the 1970s. From the mid- 1990s onward, she has written a large number of works in a range of genres and themes including play scripts and movie screenplays. As a Chinese citizen with Korean heritage, often …
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Not the Whole Story: Narrative Responses to Contemporary Globalization
… in English (and, in one chapter, new media literatures such as videogame-based narratives) to examine how individuals, communities, and globalized networks manage differences among historical interpretations, ideologies, lived experiences, and cultural and national traditions making …
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Mulk Raj Anand: Moving India Forward
<p>Mulk Raj Anand is an innovator in literature. He is one of the first Indian authors to write in English about the humanitarian dilemmas facing India during the mid-twentieth century. His compassionate objective is to produce an awareness of the cruelty and inhumane practices of untouchability …
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The poetics of hysterics: Feminine madness in Victorian English and modern Chinese women's literature
Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T15:02:33Z Item is restricted indefinitely.
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Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry
… the literary echoes of India in English literature before the eighteenth century, and through reflecting on the literary atmosphere in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
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Goethe in China: A Study of Reception and Influence
A century and a half after Goethe revealed his interest in Chinese culture, a reciprocal of attention to Goethe took place in China. Chinese translations of Goethe's works, Werther and Faust in particular, were enthusiastically devoured by the reading public, while articles and books were published …
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Colonial and post-colonial discourse in the novels of Yom Sang-sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie
This dissertation examines colonial and post-colonial discourse in the works of Yom Sang-sop of Korea, of Chinua Achebe of Nigeria and of Salman Rushdie of Indian subcontinent. Since much of the critical attention on colonial discourse has been focused on western narratives, this study aims to shed …
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