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Classical Japanese
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- Book Synopsis
- Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese. Extensive notes and historical explanations make this volume useful as both a reference for advanced students and a textbook for beginning students. The volume, which explains how classical Japanese is related to modern Japanese, includes detailed explanations of basic grammar, including helpful, easy-to-use tables of grammatical forms; annotated excerpts from classical premodern texts. Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is available for purchase as a separate volume.
- About The Author
- Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji and Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho; and an editor of Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature and Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780231135245
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press, (19 August 2005)
- Number of Pages
- 525
- Weight
- 1556 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 279.4 x 215.9 x 34 mm
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