circadian
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cir·ca·di·an
/ sərˈkādēən/
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adj. Physiol.
(of biological processes) recurring naturally on a twenty-four-hour cycle, even in the absence of light fluctuations:
a circadian rhythm.
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Writing as tea ceremony: Kawabata's geido aesthetics.(Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: International Fiction Review; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Andrew Feenberg suggests that Yasunari Kawabata's novel The Master of Go (1954...Japanese culture, suggests that Kawabata's immersion in the aesthetics...historical contexts out of which Kawabata's prewar masterpiece Snow Country...
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Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Southeast Review of Asian Studies; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Yasunari Kawabata, The Old Capital. Translated by J...after his initial 1987 translation of Kawabata's (1899-1972) novel The Old Capital...Japanese read the English translation of Kawabata's classic city-bound saga of Kyoto...
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Kawabata y las manos del corazón.(Primera nieve en el monte Fuji, colección de obras del autor Yasunari Kawabata)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 12/19/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...una obra impar: la del japons Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). Leamos, pues...emocional, no hay tremendismo en Kawabata; antes bien, una sobria contemplacin...dice. La perspectiva narrativa de Kawabata: o cuenta el protagonista una...
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Kawabata, Yasunari. First Snow on Mount Fuji.(Book Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: School Library Journal; 6/1/2003; ; 582 words
; ...obscure and meaningful. This is not a contradiction but a clue. Yasunari's approach to death and desire, loss and memory--his...Lo bello y lo triste (Beauty and Sadness, Emece, 2002). Yasunari was a main figure in the Japanese neo-sensualist movement...
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Works by Kawabata Stir Spirit, Imagination
Newspaper article from: International Examiner; 4/30/2000; ; 563 words
; ...Imagination FIRST SNOW ON FUJI By Yasunari Kawabata Translated by Michael Emmerich...TALE OF THE BAMBOO CUTTER By Yasunari Kawabata Translated by Donald Keene Illustrated...Kelly Kim I have a confession: Yasunari Kawabata is my favorite writer. He speaks...
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KAWABATA'S STORIES TRANSLATED
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/24/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...OF-THE-HAND STORIES, by Yasunari Kawabata; translated from the Japanese...Between 1921 and 1972, Yasunari Kawabata, Japan's only literary Nobel...32 WEDBOOK2 Caption: PHOTO Yasunari Kawabata / Some are carefully crafted...
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Cher monsieur Kawabata.(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...autobiographical" Cher monsieur Kawabata. El-Daif's writing has been...absurdist streak is also evident in Kawabata, where the protagonist has a chance...novelist (and Nobel laureate) Yasunari Kawabata which constitute the novel, and...
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The Tyranny of Beauty: Kawabata
Magazine article from: The Hudson Review; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...by the great Japanese novelist Yasunari Kawabata, who lived from 1899 to 1972...writers of the twentieth century, Kawabata has not been widely read or studied...a kind of Buddhist Pater. Even Kawabata's admirers are sometimes reduced...
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Travel: Mr Kawabata's feeling for snow Fact is stranger than fiction, finds Lesley Downer in Japan's `snow country', a land of endless white, odd architecture and illicit affairs
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 3/16/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...white under the night sky . . . "Snow Country" by Yasunari Kawabata IN THE city of Kanazawa I met a character straight...loved opening lines of Nobel prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata's novel. For them the words evoke the land buried...
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Review: Rashid al-Daif's novel "Dear Mr. Kawabata"
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 8/14/2000; ; 415 words
; ...Lebanese University in Beirut. His novel Dear Mr. Kawabata has just been published in this country in translation...Cheuse has a review. ALAN CHEUSE: Dear Mr. Kawabata --that's Yasunari Kawabata, the Japanese novelist who committed suicide...
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Yasunari Kawabata
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Yasunari Kawabata Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a distinguished Japanese novelist who won the Nobel Prize in literature for exemplifying in his writings the Japanese mind. Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka on June 11, 1899, into a cultured...
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Kawabata, Yasunari
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Kawabata, Yasunari (1899–1972) Japanese novelist. His best-known works are Snow Country (1948), Thousand Cranes (1952) and The Sound of the Mountain (1952). He was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature.
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Poets Laureate and Prizes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Jean-Paul Sartre 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov 1966 S. Y. Agnon/ Nelly Sachs 1967 Miguel Ángel Asturias 1968 Yasunari Kawabata 1969 Samuel Beckett 1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1971 Pablo Neruda 1972 Heinrich Böll 1973 Patrick White...
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Yukio Mishima
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...as a high school and university student. Before his career was really underway he had also won the patronage of Yasunari Kawabata, a leading novelist who would eventually receive the only Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to a Japanese writer...
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Japanese literature
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...Takuboku (1885–1912) and Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886–1942) found new means of expression. Writers of modern fiction, such as Mishima Yukio, Abe Kobo and Kawabata Yasunari have earned an international reputation.
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