Japanese Fairy Tales

Japanese Fairy Tales
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1918
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN:

A collection of 20 fairy tales from Japan including "Chin-Chin Kobakama," "The Serpent with Eight Heads," and "The Tea-Kettle."

The Lesser-Known Varieties of English

The Lesser-Known Varieties of English
Author: Daniel Schreier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2010-03-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139487418

This is the first ever volume to compile sociolinguistic and historical information on lesser-known, and relatively ignored, native varieties of English around the world. Exploring areas as diverse as the Pacific, South America, the South Atlantic and West Africa, it shows how these varieties are as much part of the big picture as major varieties and that their analysis is essential for addressing some truly important issues in linguistic theory, such as dialect obsolescence and death, language birth, dialect typology and genetic classification, patterns of diffusion and transplantation and contact-induced language change. It also shows how close interwoven fields such as social history, contact linguistics and variationist sociolinguistics are in accounting for their formation and maintenance, providing a thorough description of the lesser-known varieties of English and their relevance for language spread and change.

Amrita

Amrita
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 387
Release: 1998
Genre: Bereavement
ISBN: 0671532855

After her beautiful younger sister commits suicide, Sakumi falls down a flight of stairs and loses her memory. Struggling to remember what she has lost, she embarks on a unique emotional journey, accompanied by her dead sister's lover and her clairvoyant brother.

Cuentos japoneses

Cuentos japoneses
Author: Karl Alberti
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2017-10-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1633396657

Este libro es una colección de 24 cuentos japoneses, de los cuales muchos nunca se han traducido con anterioridad. Karl Alberti (que tradujo los cuentos del japonés al alemán) publicó el libro original en Alemania.

The Ten Loves of Nishino

The Ten Loves of Nishino
Author: Hiromi Kawakami
Publisher: Europa Editions
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609455320

The story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him at one point in their lives. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, ten women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino. Like a modern Decameron, this humorous, sensual, and touching novel by one of Japan’s best-selling and most beloved writers is a powerful and embracing portrait of the human comedy in ten voices. Driven by desires that are at once unique and common, the women in this book are modern, familiar to us, and still mysterious. A little like Nishino himself . . . Winner 2020 Pen Translation Prize Praise for The Ten Loves of Nishino “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love The Ten Loves of Nishino.” —DozoDomo (France) “Agile, inventive fiction.” —Booklist “An intriguing portrayal of romantic attachment.” —The New Yorker “The women in this collection are vibrant, lusty, and clearly the agents of their own love lives . . . . Kawakami's novel treats its feminist themes with a light hand but still slyly lands its points.” —Kirkus Reviews

Lizard

Lizard
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 195
Release: 1996-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0671532766

Six short stories by a Japanese woman writer known for her unusual themes. In Blood and Water, a woman abandons the religious commune where she was raised, goes to the big city and finds another idol of worship, a charismatic lover. The story looks at the connection between spiritual and romantic fervor. By the author of Kitchen.

Writing Across Cultures

Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822352931

Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.

Central American English

Central American English
Author: John A. Holm
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1983
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3872762958

This volume is about the Anglophone creoles to be found on the Caribbean coast of Central America (Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama), and its offshore islands (Providencia, San Andrés and the Caymans) . The study of these Anglophone varieties is comparatively recent and based on current field work from Belize to Panama. One of the interesting features that emerges is the tentative map of diachronic and synchronic relationsships among the Anglophone creoles of the Caribbean, as illustrated partly by the lexicon and partly by grammatical constructions. The studies in this book are based on phonetic transcriptions of speech acts in their social and linguistic context.