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本书是一部名家赏析明清文学经典著作的文学普及读物，详细解读了明清文学中具代表性的作家及其经典作品，包括中国古典四大名著以及冯梦龙、顾炎武、王士祯、孔尚任、归有光、侯方域、袁枚、龚自珍、王国维等，作者均为专力于文学研究与欣赏的学术界、文化界知名人士，如吴小如、梁归智、吴调公、吴功正、邓云乡、周先慎、王英志、黄秋耘、李延祜、蒋和森等。所辑篇目，都是有生命力、有影响力，曾得到广泛好评的优秀赏析文章，被赏析文章，亦为公认的名篇，引导读者从更宽泛的背景、更专业的角度欣赏文学名篇、感受名篇魅力，是一本很好的了解、欣赏明清文学的普及读物。
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Modern Japanese Literature in Films

by Keiko I. McDonald ...

Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary. The Western world became aware of this when Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice film festival in 1951 and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1952. More recent examples include Shohei Imamura's Eel, which won the Palm d'Or (Best Picture) at Cannes ... Read more

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Of all the world s cinemas, Japan's is perhaps unique in its closeness to the nation's literature, past and contemporary. The Western world became aware of this when Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon was awarded the Grand Prize at the Venice film festival in 1951 and the Oscar for best foreign film in 1952. More recent examples include Shohei Imamura's Eel, which won the Palm d'Or (Best Picture) at Cannes
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Light and Dark

A Novel

Translated by John Nathan ...

by Sōseki Natsume ...

Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With Light and Dark, ... Read more

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Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no precedent in Japan at the time of its publication and has not been equaled since. With Light and Dark,
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