Agatharchus
Agatharchus , fl. 5th cent. BC, Greek painter of the Athenian school, b. Samos. He is credited by Vitruvius with important discoveries in application of shading and perspective and was the first painter of scenery for Athenian tragedies.
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Japanese Utopian Literature from the 1870s to the Present and the Influence of Western Utopianism(*).
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...SURVEY of modern Japanese utopian/dystopian...influences. Japanese literature after the Meiji...isolation from literatures of the West...its own utopian literature. By describing the development of Japanese utopian/dystopian...
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Spellbound: University of Baghdad Professor Abdul Wahid Mohammed remarks on the magic of Japanese literature.(Comment)
Magazine article from: Look Japan; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...on nay memories of my Japanese reading, which remain strong. My reading in Japanese literature ranges across the genres...tend to read Japanese literature in its English rather...Sometimes, I read the Japanese works twice: first...
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Japanese literature, or "J-Literature," in the 1990s.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...yet as I gather my thoughts on Japanese literature in the 1990s, I feel if I am writing about the remote past. Japanese postwar literature, as with...pure" literature. To refer to Japanese literature of the 1990s, the...
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Japanese novelist, essayist wins Nobel Prize for Literature. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/13/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...the 59-year-old Japanese novelist and essayist...of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday. Although Japanese literature is considered...eh) is only the second Japanese writer to win the literature...
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Atsuko Sakaki. Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature. Honolulu: University of...nationalism amputated Sino-Japanese literature (kanbun) from the national...of China and Chineseness in Japanese literature and the more intricate modern...
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KEYS TO THE MYSTERIES OF JAPANESE LITERATURE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/7/1988; ; 700+ words
; THE PLEASURES OF JAPANESE LITERATURE, by Donald Keene. Columbia University...Illustrated. A READER'S GUIDE TO JAPANESE LITERATURE, by J. Thomas Rimer. Kodansha...Caption: PHOTO From "The Pleasures of Japanese Literature"
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Contemporary Japanese Literature.(Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology of Fiction, Film, and Other Writing since 1945)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch; 9/1/2005; 474 words
; Contemporary Japanese Literature Howard Hibbett, editor Cheng &...cheng-tsui.com Contemporary Japanese Literature: An Anthology Of Fiction...and Harvard professor emeritus of Japanese literature Howard Hibbett, Contemporary...
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Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature.(Book review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature. By Hosea Hirata...modern and contemporary Japanese writers and critics...position--to expose literature's involvement in the...secretly complicit with Japanese colonialism (184...
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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...organized vision of the sort that Japanese scholars usually shy away from...including those specialists of Japanese literature who get to Japan only on occasion...remarks that Origins of Modern Japanese Literature might have "outlived...
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Japanese Author Wins Nobel Prize In Literature
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/14/1994; ; 700+ words
; STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe won the 1994 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday. The Swedish...headlines. The only other Japanese to win a Nobel in literature...Oe said other modern Japanese writers such as Kobo Abe...
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Japanese literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Japanese literature literary works produced...Earliest Writings Although Japanese and Chinese are different...of 31 syllables. The Japanese have always esteemed poetry...supreme honor. Medieval Literature In the subsequent medieval...
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Japanese
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...used increasingly to transcribe Japanese. Since several thousand characters...kana are necessary for reading Japanese literature and periodicals, a need for...political development of the Japanese people make Japanese one of the...
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Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...fictional characters from Japanese storybooks. In adolescence...and majored in English literature with a concentration...encounter between a grasping Japanese servant and an old woman...Chinese and Japanese literature and delicate sensitivity...short fiction in the Japanese "I" novel ...
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Yasunari Kawabata
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was...Kawabata read contemporary Japanese authors of the Shirakaba Ha...
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Soseki Natsume
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Soseki Natsume The Japanese novelist and essayist Soseki Natsume...1916) was one of the greatest Japanese novelists of the modern period...Natsume in Tokyo; he is known in Japanese literature by his pen name of Soseki. His...
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