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Shirane and Suzuki examine how the Japanese canon of "classics" (The Tale of Genji, The Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho) was constr
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Authors: Haruo Shirane
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Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku,
Inventing American History
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: William Hogeland
Categories: History
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A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest.
Inventing the Individual
Language: en
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Authors: Larry Siedentop
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Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account o
The Invention of Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Eric Hobsbawm
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-07-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolis