[PDF.27sk] Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan

Tales of Tears and Laughter: Short Fiction of Medieval Japan

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 | #4407695 in Books |  Univ of Hawaii Pr |  1991-08 | Original language:Japanese | PDF # 1 |  8.75 x6.00 x1.00l, | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Depressed? Stressed out? This is a "must-read" book for you!|By Ken Iida|It was a nonstop reading. Who could possibly get bored with the thirteen cute, little pieces Virginia Skord presents here? She succeeds in carrying out the subtle nuances the original texts possess (I have read many of them translated into "modern" Japanese) into jargon-free English. What? Do words su|From Publishers Weekly|As Skord explains in her helpful introduction, the term otogi-zoshi (literally, "companion booklets" or "companion stories") encompasses a body of about 400 short and thematically varied Japanese narratives from the late 1300s to the early

The stories in this collection constitute just a small portion of a vast body of some four hundred short narratives known as otogizoshi. They represent a cross section of medieval Japan in its richness and complexity, a panoply of life teeming with all the possibilities and contradictions of the age.

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