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Sino-Japanese Transculturation: From the Late Nineteenth ...
Richard KingKAREN THORNBER Karen Thornber is associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her research and teaching focus on world literature and the literatures and cultures of East Asia.
Sino-Japanese Transculturation: Late Nineteenth Century to ...
PreviewKAREN THORNBER Karen Thornber is associate professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her research and teaching focus on world literature and the literatures and cultures of East Asia.
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective: ...
PreviewEcoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism. Ed. Scott Slovic et al. New York: Lexington Books, 2014. 59-69. Print. Thornber, Karen Laura. Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures.
Notes on the introduction of deciduous tamarisk
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
Preview5 For a summary of the relationship between East Asian literatures and environ- mental degradation, see Karen Laura Thornber, Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012 ), ...
Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese ...
Karen Laura ThornberDrawing extensively on vernacular sources in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book analyzes the most active of these contact nebulae: semicolonial Chinese, occupied Manchurian, and colonial Korean and Taiwanese transculturations of ...
East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader
PreviewKaren. Thornber. Human cultural products have negotiated—revealed, reinterpreted, and shaped—ecological changes since prehistoric times. Paleolithic cave paintings dating to well before 30,000 BCE give diverse perspectives on early ...
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures
Carlos RojasAnotherset of approaches takes as their starting point a cluster of social and communal concerns, and in their chapters Tze-lan Deborah Sang, E. K. Tan, and Karen Thornber focus on gender, sexuality, and environmental issues, respectively.
A Global History of Literature and the Environment
PreviewKaren Thornber If nets of fine mesh do not enter pools and ponds, there will be more fish and turtles than we can consume. If axes enter the hills and forests only at the proper times, there will be more wood than we can use. Mencius (372–289 ...
New International Voices in Ecocriticism
PreviewLawrence Buell, Ursula K. Heise, and Karen Thornber, “Literature and Environment,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources 36 (2011):417–40, at 422. 27. Helena Feder, “Rethinking Multiculturalism: Theory and Nonhuman Cultures,” ...
Comparatizing Taiwan
Shu-mei Shih42 Lawrence Buell, Ursula Heise, and Karen Thornber (2011) summarize ecocritical treatments of indigenous literatures in “Ecocriticism Review.” 43 In contrast, for instance, to the indigenous whalers whom the Japanese writer Nitta Jiro- ...
Japanese Tales from Times Past: Stories of Fantasy and ...
PreviewThanks to Karen Thornber for her support and comments, and for contributing the foreword. Thanks also to Professor Scott Slovic for his comments and support. Discussions with Professors Koichi Kansaku, Akira Suganuma, and David Bialock ...
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures
PreviewCHAPTER 3.11 CARE, VULNERABILITY, RESILIENCE Ecologies of HIV/AIDS in Chinese Literature KAREN THORNBER EARLY in the 1994 novel Notes of a Desolate Man (荒人手記) by the Taiwanese writer Chu T'ienwen 朱天文(b. 1956) ...
Is Landscape...?: Essays on the Identity of Landscape
PreviewKaren Thornber, professor of comparative literature, writing about East Asian literature specifically relative to ecological urbanism, suggests that literature has a poetic agency and the capability of changing collective consciousness as well as ...
The Modernist World
PreviewKaren. Thornber. East Asian literary modernism (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan) spans much of the twentieth century, flourishing in the 1920s to 1930s. Like their counterparts in other regions, East Asian modernist texts tend to be somewhat ...
Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Karen ThornberAlso important is the difference between physical “environment” and “nature” as powerful political and ideological elements in nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Japan. As Julia Adeney Thomas has pointed out, “nature in political terms ...
The Sister Diaries
Karen QuinnAlthough they couldn't be more different, Amanda, Serena and Laura Moon have always been there for one another.
The Pan American Games / Los Juegos Panamericanos: A ...
Steven OlderrRamsey CAN 131.395 Laura Wilkin Carol Stewart USA 194.86 Michele Barone Linda Shelley CAN 187.233 Penny Vilagos Vicky Vilagos CAN 183.450 Karen Fonteyne Karen Sribney MEX 174.936 Sonia Cárdenas Lourdes Olivera CAN ...
The Perfect Present
Karen SwanBut the last story left to tell has the power to change all of their lives forever, and Laura is forced to choose between who she really is and who it is she wants to be.
Laura and Mr. Edwards
Laura Ingalls WilderWhen Laura and her family move from Wisconsin to Kansas, they make friends with a helpful neighbor who comes to their aid later when they settle in the Dakota Territory.
Hurry Up and Slow Down -- Laura's Story
Laura FerreiraLaura Ferreira. Hurry Up and Slow Down— Laura's Story Laura Ferreira Order thisbookonlineat www.trafford.com oremail ...
National geographic guide to America's public gardens: 300 ...
Mary Zuazua Jenkins... Book Director Mary Zuazua Jenkins Art Director Carmile S. Zaino Designer Kevin Callahan Editor Mary Luders Copy Editor Karen Ivory Index Jenifer Blakemore Writers Jane Mintzer Hoffman, Karen Ivory, Mary Zuazua Jenkins, Laura Martin, ...
The Pied Piper: Laura’s Story the Pedophile’s Wife
Laura SmithWalter was active in the church and youth groups. He loved music, and everyone liked him. Laura felt truly blessed. Little did she know that, in five short years, all those dreams would turn to nightmares.
Knit One, Pearl Two
Laura Thompson" - Diane N.Laura Thompson's passion for Christ overflows in a desire to use all of her many gifts to glorify the Name of Jesus. Laura is a 21st Century Biblical Woman.
Love by the Morning Star
Laura L. SullivanLaura L. Sullivan ... New York 10003. www.hmhco.com Text set in Dante MT Std. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sullivan, Laura L. Love by the morning star / Laura L. Sullivan. pages cm Summary: Mistaken for one another ...
Colder than Here
Laura WadeLaura Wade's beautifully poised family drama was first performed at Soho Theatre, London. ‘Laura Wade’s play is a 90-minute masterpiece, a jewel, dark but translucent.
Fragile Lies
Laura ElliotLaura Elliot. A gripping tale of adultery and illusion EVENING H E R A LID fragile lies o s A Laura Elliot FRAGILE LIES Cso LAURA ELLIOT Contents Copyright Dedication Prologue PART. Front Cover.
When God Doesn't Fix It: Lessons You Never Wanted to Learn, ...
Laura StoryThe fairy-tale life Laura had dreamed of was no longer possible. And yet in struggling with God about how to live with broken dreams, Laura has found joy and a deeper intimacy with Jesus.
An Examination of a Woman's Life Work: Laura Smith Haviland ...
Shelly A. McCoy GrissomList of Figures Figure 1: Laura Smith Haviland photograph 19 Figure 2: Tombstone of Charles and Laura Smith Haviland photograph 24 Figure 3: Statue of Laura Smith Haviland photograph 26 Figure 4: Laura Smith Haviland and family ...
Caller Unknown: Book One of the Karen Wilson Chronicles
Jennifer BrozekKaren is determined to figure out what is really going on—and protect her city, whatever the cost… Caller Unknown: Volume One of The Karen Wilson Chronicles, is the first of four novellas following the trials of Karen Wilson as she ...
who called from an unknown number?