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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.
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.
Notes on the introduction of deciduous tamarisk
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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.
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 ...
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,” ...
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 ...
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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
Hebrews: Running the Race Before Us
George H. GuthrieBRINGING THE BIBLE TO LIFE Genesis, by John H. Walton, Janet Nygren, and Karen H. Jobes (12 sessions) Esther, by Karen H. Jobes and Janet Nygren (8 sessions) John, by Gary M. Burge, Karen Lee-Thorp, and Karen H. Jobes (12 ...
Karen Le Billon Two-Book Bundle: French Kids Eat Everything ...
Karen Le BillonAuthor Karen Le Billon coaches readers through the process of taste training, including strategies, games, and experiments that will encourage even reluctant eaters to branch out.
Karen's Ghost (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #12)
Ann M. MartinKaren thinks the ghost of Ben Brewer lives in her house but she's never really seen him until now. Karen and her stepsister have found out that Ben and his spooky friends are going to have a party in her attic.
Wedding Flowers: Karen Tran
Karen TranKnown as one of the country's leading wedding designers, Karen has set a high standard and is considered a trendsetter in her field. This book is a cross section of 20 years of excellence."
The Xenophobe's Guide to the Danes
Helen DyrbyeThis means that bank statements, future correspondence, etc., can then be addressed either to: 'Fr. (Ms.) Karen Hansen' or Biblioteksassistent Karen Hansen (Library Assistant Karen Hansen). As her career progresses, Ms. Hansen must make ...
Chimera Incarnate: Book Four of the Karen Wilson Chronicles
Jennifer BrozekThe fourth and final volume of the Karen Wilson Chronicles tells the story of what happens when all the chips are down, places of power have been consumed, and one of Karen's greatest allies teeters on the edge of oblivion.
The Ultimatum: The Guardian Series
Karen RobardsThe first thriller in the Guardian series by New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, perfect for fans of Karen Rose and Sandra Brown.
A lesser child: an autobiography
Karen GershonA Lesser Child recounts the childhood of distinguished poet Karen Gershon, who grew up in Germany under Hitler's regime. Karen was the granddaughter of a wealthy member of the local Jewish community, and her family was close-knit.
Dirty Secrets (A Karen Rose Novella): (A Karen Rose Novella)
Karen RoseDIRTY SECRETS is an intense, pulse-pounding novella from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose.
Karen''s Little Witch (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #22)
Ann M. MartinIf Karen''s next-door neighbor Mrs.
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
More editionsUnexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, ...
Karen''s Promise (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #95)
Ann M. MartinPromises are for keeps Karen’s little-house family is moving away for a while.
who called from an unknown number?