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| Contents by Genre | ||
| Preface | ||
| Guide to the Reader | ||
| Principles of Transliteration and Pronunciation Guide | ||
| Introduction: Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective | ||
| The Imaginative Universe of Indian Literature | 3 | |
| A Note on Modern Indian Literature | 15 | |
| The Imaginative Universe of Chinese Literature | 21 | |
| The Imaginative Universe of Japanese Literature | 37 | |
| A Note on Modern Japanese Literature | 51 | |
| Classical Sanskrit Lyric: Poetry of Love and Loss | 55 | |
| Classical Tamil Poetry and Tamil Poetics | 66 | |
| Devotional Poetry of Medieval North India | 78 | |
| Lyric Poetry in Urdu: The Ghazal | 94 | |
| The Poems and Stories of Rabindranath Tagore | 109 | |
| The Mahabharata, Including the Bhagavad Gita | 123 | |
| The Ramayana of Valmiki | 133 | |
| Anita Desai: Fire on the Mountain and Games at Twilight | 149 | |
| R. K. Narayan's The Financial Expert | 157 | |
| The Short Stories of Premchand | 167 | |
| Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children | 178 | |
| Samskara: The Passing of the Brahman Tradition | 189 | |
| Two Classical Indian Plays: Kalidasa's Sakuntala and Sudraka's Little Clay Cart | 201 | |
| The Book of Songs | 211 | |
| The Poetry of Retreat | 222 | |
| Tang Poetry: A Return to Basics | 232 | |
| Chuang Tzu | 245 | |
| The Records of the Historian | 259 | |
| The Journey to the West | 272 | |
| Cao Xueqin's Hongloumeng (Story of the Stone or Dream of the Red Chamber) | 285 | |
| Liu E's The Travels of Lao Can | 299 | |
| The Stories of Lu Xun | 309 | |
| Camel Xiangzi (Rickshaw) by Lao She | 321 | |
| Contemporary Chinese Lettres | 330 | |
| Timeline of Significant Events in China, 1911-1987, in Relation to Contemporary Chinese Lettres | 345 | |
| Story of the Western Wing (Xixiang ji) (Romance of the Western Chamber) | 347 | |
| The Man'yoshu and Kokinshu Collections | 363 | |
| The Poetry of Matsuo Basho | 378 | |
| The Tale of Genji | 390 | |
| A Book of One's Own: The Gossamer Years; The Pillow Book; and The Confessions of Lady Nijo | 404 | |
| "An Account of My Hut" | 420 | |
| Seven Japanese Tales | 428 | |
| Beyond Absolution: Enchi Fumiko's The Waiting Years and Masks | 439 | |
| The Woman in the Dunes | 457 | |
| Mishima Yukio, The Allegorist | 470 | |
| Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country | 481 | |
| Soseki's Kokoro | 493 | |
| Three Plays of the Noh Theater | 501 | |
| The Love Suicides at Sonezaki | 517 | |
| Postscript: East-West Literary Relations: The "Wisdom" of the "East" | 526 | |
| Summaries of the Masterworks | 539 | |
| Historical Timelines | 553 | |
| Index | 563 | |
| Contributors | 577 |
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Rj Miles
reviewed Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching on December 27, 2019 Masterworks of Asian Literature in Comparative Perspective: A Guide for Teaching
The collection was hit or miss. Her early stories, while of historical interest, were fairly poor. Her later stories in this collection were excellent. Stand outs include "Within the Folds of Seclusion," "Wooden Cradles," "A Leaf in the Whirlwind," "Come Back," "Fulfillment," and "Dhirendru Majumdar's Mother." The memoir portion of the collection was overwrought. Most of her mediations on the relationship between the writer and her craft were tiresome and excessively flowery. Besides highlighting the difficulty of simultaneously being a full-time writer and mother, it is unclear what this portion of the memoir adds to our understanding of the artistic process. The best part of her memoir, by far, was her elegy for her mother.
The political and social points she is making in this book were revolutionary for her time (and indeed, are most likely still revolutionary in most of India) but seem dated today. The ideals she states with such ethical clarity and moral force are ones we, by and large, accept as granted. It becomes difficult to relate to her fervor as it seems uncontroversial.
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