Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature. By GloriaFisk. Pp. xiii, 265, NY/Chichester, Columbia University Press, 2018, $49.95.

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (6) ◽  
pp. 946-947
Author(s):  
Patrick Madigan
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Orhan Pamuk

The Cloud of Longing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. H. Rick Jarow
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Poetry And Poetics

The Cloud of Longing is a full-length study and translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa’s famed Meghadūta (literally: The Cloud Messenger) with a focus on its interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory. While the Meghadūta has been translated a number of times, the last “almost academic” translation was published in 1976 (Leonard Nathan, The Transport of Love: The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa). Barbara Stoler Miller, my graduate mentor at Columbia University, oftentimes remarked that it was time for a new translation of the text. This volume, however, is more than an Indological translation. It is a study of the text in light of both classical Indian and contemporary Western literary theory, and it is aimed at lovers of poetry and poetics and students of world literature. It seeks to widen the arena of literary and poetic studies to include classic works of Asian traditions. It also looks at the poem’s imaginative portrayals of “nature” and “environment” from perspectives that have rarely been considered.

Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature by Gloria Fisk

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 873-876
Author(s):  
Audrey J. Golden
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Orhan Pamuk

scholarly journals The Tale of Genji and Heian Literature: Reception History, Translations, and New Frontiers - Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors. By Doris G. Bargen. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015. xix, 372 pp. ISBN: 9780824851545 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature. By Michael Emmerich. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xv, 494 pp. ISBN: 9780231162722 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation. By Joshua S. Mostow. Leiden: Brill, 2014. xiv, 354 pp. ISBN: 9789004244856 (cloth). - L’Âge d'or de la prose féminine au Japon (Xe–XIe siècle) [The Golden Age of Women's Prose in Japan (10th–11th Centuries)]. By Jacqueline Pigeot. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2017. 176 pp. ISBN: 9782251446400 (paper, also available as e-book). - The Tale of Genji. By Murasaki Shikibu, trans. Dennis Washburn. New York: W.W. Norton, 2015. xxxviii, 1,320 pp. ISBN: 9780393047875 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). - Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice. By Brian Steininger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2017. xi, 293 pp. ISBN: 9780674975156 (cloth).

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
Sonja Arntzen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Reception History ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Tale Of Genji ◽  
Murasaki Shikibu ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Heian Literature
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