In this book, originally published in Japanese, Shiba intersperses her narration with excerpts from the actual travel diaries and sheds new light on women's literary activities in early modern Japan, ...which are noticeably understudied compared to other genres of Japanese literary history. The translation includes notes for general English readers.
"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."
So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. ...Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work.
With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape.
As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English,Across the Open Fieldis "an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth."
In "Great Central State", Jack Cross tells the story of South Australia's ambitious - or foolhardy - plan to become the premier colony of Australia using its own unique experience in planned ...colonisation, and its bid to develop the north coast as an integral part of South-East Asia.
Ireland de Beaumont, Gustave; Taylor, W. C; Garvin, Tom ...
2006, 2006-01-01, 20060101
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Beaumont chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the eve of the Great Famine. This rediscovered masterpiece includes an introduction on Beaumont and his world. This ...volume also presents Beaumont's impassioned preface in which he portrays the appalling effects of the Great Famine.
Dans la pratique philologique, la critique, qui établit l’authenticité du texte et l’herméneutique, qui en dégage le sens, sont deux opérations solidaires. Ce modèle s’est vu élevé à la réflexion, ...dès la fin du xviiie siècle en Allemagne, par les auteurs de la génération romantique, Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher et Ast. Le projet de réunir "philologie et philosophie" résume leur tentative, originale par rapport aux philosophies postkantiennes. Car ces auteurs cherchent à penser l’antinomie entre la critique et l’herméneutique, la mise à distance dans le jugement et l’expérience d’une appartenance première. Suivant des perspectives distinctes, ils ont conçu une théorie philosophique de l’interprétation, depuis le cadre d’une encyclopédie philologique. Mais cette théorie ne s’est pas préparée à l’écart de tout exercice. Depuis la pratique philologique jusqu’à l’invention d’un nouvel art de la critique littéraire propre au premier romantisme d’Iéna, il s’agit toujours de l’autoréflexion d’une pratique interprétative, de l’effort fourni pour en énoncer les fondements et la portée. Le choix des textes retenus vise à mettre en évidence cette double perspective, en reconstituant ainsi l’arc allant du jugement critique singulier (sur la Lucinde ou le Philoctète) à la recomposition du sens de grands ensembles textuels (Boccace ou Lessing) et menant à la proposition d’une théorie cohérente. Entre le jugement critique et la relation herméneutique partant de la reconnaissance de l’historicité du sens, c’est le projet d’une encyclopédie des sciences de l’esprit qui cherche ici ses fondements théoriques.
Preface p. ix -- Acknowledgments p. xiii -- Ch. 1 Introduction : Transgressing Self and Voice - Contemporary Fiction and the Death of the Narrator p. 1 -- Ch. 2 "At First You Feel a Bit Lost" : The ...Varieties of Second Person Narration p. 17 -- Ch. 3 Class and Consciousness : "We" Narration from Conrad to Postcolonial Fiction p. 37 -- Ch. 4 I, etcetera : Multiperson Narration and the Range of Contemporary Narrators p. 61 -- Ch. 5 Three Extreme Forms of Narration and a Note on Postmodern Unreliability p. 79 -- Ch. 6 Unnatural Narration in Contemporary Drama p. 106
Richard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the early 1990s and then returned each year until he became a resident in 2005. From an insider/outsider ...perspective, he writes vividly and evocatively about the land and people of his adopted home, its culture, its literature, and its long, complex history. Tillinghast orients the reader to Ireland as it is today. Following its entry into the European Union, Ireland changed radically from an impoverished, provincial, former British colony to a country where a farmer takes his wife on skiing holidays in Switzerland and is proud of his wine cellar, to one now home to immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Asia. For many Americans—Irish Americans in particular—Ireland is a mythic and timeless land; from his unique vantage point, Tillinghast debunks a good many stereotypes that prevent our seeing Ireland for what it was, as well as what it has become. Most of Finding Ireland is devoted to thoughtful readings of the works of Irish writers and playwrights, including W. B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Oscar Wilde, and Brian Friel, as well as lesser-known names that deserve a wider readership. Tillinghast also considers the significant contributions of Anglo-Irish authors—John Millington Synge, Elizabeth Bowen, George Moore, Violet Martin and Edith Somerville, William Trevor, and Derek Mahon—with excursions into Irish architecture, music, and garden design. In contemporary Ireland, Tillinghast finds a dynamic society that has stepped out of the shadows of its troubled past to embrace an inclusive, outward-looking interpretation of its history. Intimate in tone, entertaining, and always accessible, Finding Ireland captures an expatriate’s enthusiasm for his new country and its evolving identity.
In the early 1990s, at the watershed age of thirty, Marilyn Abildskov decided she needed to start over. She accepted an offer to move from Utah to Matsumoto, Japan, to teach English to junior high ...school students. "All I knew is that I had to get away and when I stared at my name on the Japanese contract, the squiggles of katakana, my name typed in English sturdily beneath, I liked how it looked. As if it-as if I-were translated, transformed, emerging now as someone new."The Men in My Countryis the story of an American woman living and loving in Japan. Satisfied at first to observe her exotic surroundings, the woman falls in love with the place, with the light, with the curve of a river, with the smell of bonfires during obon, with blue and white porcelain dishes, with pencil boxes, and with small origami birds. Later, struggling for a deeper connection-"I wanted the country under my skin"-Abildskov meets the three men who will be part of her transformation and the one man with whom she will fall deeply in love.A travel memoir offering an artful depiction of a very real place,The Men in My Countryalso covers the terrain of a complex emotional journey, tracing a geography of the heart, showing how we move to be moved, how in losing ourselves in a foreign place we can become dangerously-and gloriously-undone.
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