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1. | | Title: Classical Telugu poetry: an anthology Author: Nārāyaṇarāvu, Vēlcēru 1932- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Asian Studies | Hinduism | Poetry | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia | Social Theory | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one of the richest yet least explored of all South Asian literatures. This authoritative volume, the firs . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Facundo: civilization and barbarism: the first complete English translationAuthor: Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino 1811-1888 Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Literature | History | Latin American History | Politics | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: A classic work of Latin American literature, Domingo Sarmiento's Facundo has become an integral part of the history, politics, and culture of Latin America since its first publication in 1845. Partially translated into English when it was first published, this foundational text appears here for the . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Sappho's lyre: archaic lyric and women poets of ancient GreeceAuthor: Rayor, Diane J Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | PoetryPublisher's Description: Sappho sang her poetry to the accompaniment of the lyre on the Greek island of Lesbos over 2500 years ago. Throughout the Greek world, her contemporaries composed lyric poetry full of passion, and in the centuries that followed the golden age of archaic lyric, new forms of poetry emerged. In this un . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: The Bodhidharma anthology: the earliest records of ZenAuthor: Bodhidharma 6th cent Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Religion | Buddhism | Asian StudiesPublisher's Description: In the early part of this century, the discovery of a walled-up cave in northwest China led to the retrieval of a lost early Ch'an (Zen) literature of the T'ang dynasty (618-907). One of the recovered Zen texts was a seven-piece collection, the Bodhidharma Anthology . Of the numerous texts attribute . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Siting translation: history, post-structuralism, and the colonial contextAuthor: Niranjana, Tejaswini 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | Southeast Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among peoples, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwrit . . . [more]Similar Items | 6. | | Title: Inscribed landscapes: travel writing from imperial China Author: Strassberg, Richard E Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Asian History | ChinaPublisher's Description: Alongside the scores of travel books about China written by foreign visitors, Chinese travelers' impressions of their own country rarely appear in translation. This anthology is the only comprehensive collection in English of Chinese travel writing from the first century A.D. through the nineteenth. . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Himalayan voices: an introduction to modern Nepali literature Author: Hutt, Michael Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | South AsiaPublisher's Description: While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal to . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Propertius in love: the elegiesAuthor: Propertius, Sextus Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Literature in Translation | Poetry | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: These ardent, even obsessed, poems about erotic passion are among the brightest jewels in the crown of Latin literature. Written by Propertius, Rome's greatest poet of love, who was born around 50 b.c., a contemporary of Ovid, these elegies tell of Propertius' tormented relationship with a woman he . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Immanent visitor: selected poems of Jaime Saenz Author: Sáenz, Jaime Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Latin American Studies | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: Immanent Visitor is the first English-language translation of the work of Bolivia's greatest and most visionary twentieth-century poet. A poète maudit, Jaime Saenz rejected the conventions of polite society and became a monk in service of his own imagination. Apocalyptic and occult in his politics, . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Renard the FoxAuthor: Terry, Patricia Ann 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | Poetry | Literature in Translation | Medieval StudiesPublisher's Description: Renard the Fox is the first modern translation into English of one of the most important and influential medieval books. Valued for its comic spirit, its high literary quality, and its clever satire of feudal society, the tale uses animals to represent the members of various classes. This lively and . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Hesiod's Works and daysAuthor: Hesiod Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Economics and Business | Classics | Sociology | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: This new, annotated translation of Hesiod's Works and Days is a collaboration between David W. Tandy, a classicist, and Walter Neale, an economist and economic historian. Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose Works and Days discusses agricultural practices and society in general. Classicists and an . . . [more]Similar Items | 12. | | Title: Surviving through the days: translations of Native California stories and songs: a California Indian reader Author: Luthin, Herbert W 1954- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | American Studies | Native American Studies | American LiteraturePublisher's Description: This anthology of treasures from the oral literature of Native California, assembled by an editor admirably sensitive to language, culture, and history, will delight scholars and general readers alike. Herbert Luthin's generous selection of stories, anecdotes, myths, reminiscences, and songs is draw . . . [more]Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | RhetoricPublisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more]Similar Items | 14. | | Title: The moon and the zither: the story of the western wingAuthor: Wang, Shifu fl. 1295-1307 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Literature | China | Literature in TranslationPublisher's Description: China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji , or The Story of the Western Wing , is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play ha . . . [more]Similar Items | 15. | | Title: The Lioness in bloom: modern Thai fiction about womenAuthor: Kepner, Susan Fulop 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature | Fiction | Southeast Asia | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female sexualit . . . [more]Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Galileo on the world systems: a new abridged translation and guideAuthor: Galilei, Galileo 1564-1642 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | History and Philosophy of Science | HistoryPublisher's Description: Galileo's 1632 book, Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican , comes alive for twentieth-century readers thanks to Maurice Finocchiaro's brilliant new translation and presentation. Condemned by the Inquisition for its heretical proposition that the earth revolves around the . . . [more]Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Speak, bird, speak again: Palestinian Arab folktales Author: Muhawi, Ibrahim 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Anthropology | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | Folklore and MythologyPublisher's Description: Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it is much more than this. By combining their respect . . . [more]Similar Items | 18. | | Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Comparative Literature | Middle Eastern HistoryPublisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more]Similar Items | 19. | | Title: The private orations of ThemistiusAuthor: Themistius Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Classical History | Classical Politics | Classical Religions | Ancient HistoryPublisher's Description: Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's private orations to be published in English, Robert J. Penella makes accessible texts that shed significant light on the cul . . . [more]Similar Items | 20. | | Title: To live as long as heaven and earth: a translation and study of Ge Hong's traditions of divine transcendentsAuthor: Campany, Robert Ford 1959- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | China | Taoism | BuddhismPublisher's Description: In late classical and early medieval China, ascetics strove to become transcendents--deathless beings with supernormal powers. Practitioners developed dietetic, alchemical, meditative, gymnastic, sexual, and medicinal disciplines (some of which are still practiced today) to perfect themselves and th . . . [more]Similar Items |
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