The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI
Author: Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2019-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253048451

Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty. The Grand Scribe’s Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discern auspicious days, turtle and stalk diviners, and those whose goods increase, punctuated by the final account of Emperor Wu’s wars against neighboring peoples and concluded with Ssu-ma Ch’ien’s postface containing a history of his family and himself. Praise for the series: “[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology.” —China Review International “The English translation has been done meticulously.” —Choice

The Grand Scribe's Records

The Grand Scribe's Records
Author: Qian Sima
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253340221

This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shi chi(The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals trace the first century of Han rule (206 BC to ca. 100 BC) in a year-by-year account that focuses on imperial activities. In The Grand Scribe's Records, Ssu-ma Ch'ien revitalised the style of the annals he had written for previous rulers. Here are accounts of the peasant who founded the dynasty, Liu Pang, a man noted as much for his licentiousness as he was his ruthless political instinct, and of his cruel wife, Empress Lÿ, who murdered her chief rival for Liu Pang's affections in the most gruesome manner. The annals of two relatively undistinguished emperors follow. The volume concludes with Ssu-ma's depiction of perhaps the greatest ruler of the Han, Emperor Wu, told within the context of his delusive attempts to find a means to achieve immortality. When completed this translation will bring all 130 chapters of the Shih chi into English. Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume II

The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume II
Author: Ssu-ma Ch'ien
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2018
Genre: China
ISBN: 9780253039095

This second volume of the ongoing annotated translation of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's Shih chi (The Grand Scribe's Records), widely acknowledged as the most important early Chinese history, contains the "basic annals" of five early Han-dynasty emperors. The annals trace the first century of Han rule (206 b.c. to ca. 100 b.c.) in a year-by-year account that focuses on imperial activities. In these later annals, Ssu-ma Ch'ien revitalized the style he had employed in accounts of previous rulers in the opening chapters of The Grand Scribe's Records. When this translation is completed, it will make available in English all 130 chapters of the Shih chi. Volumes 1 and 7 were published by Indiana University Press in 1994.

When Kafka Says We

When Kafka Says We
Author: Vivian Liska
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-06-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253353084

Taking as its starting point Franz Kafka's complex relationship to Jews and to communities in general, When Kafka Says We explores the ambivalent responses of major German-Jewish writers to self-enclosed social, religious, ethnic, and ideological groups. Vivian Liska shows that, for Kafka and others, this ambivalence inspired innovative modes of writing which, while unmasking the oppressive cohesion of communal groupings, also configured original and uncommon communities. Interlinked close readings of works by German-Jewish writers such as Kafka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Nelly Sachs, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger, and Robert Schindel illuminate the ways in which literature can subvert, extend, or reconfigure established visions of communities. Liska's rich and astute analysis uncovers provocative attitudes and insights on a subject of continuing controversy.

Five Plays by Langston Hughes

Five Plays by Langston Hughes
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1963-01-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780253201218

Five plays representing Hughes' dramatic writing over a period of forty years.

Reading Eco

Reading Eco
Author: Rocco Capozzi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 512
Release: 1997-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780253211163

Examines some of Eco's writings together with secondary sources in order to arrive at a more comprehensive critique of his literary theories and his notions of general semiotics as a cognitive social/cultural practice. Articles on literary semiotics, which comprise the second section, focus primarily on Eco, Peirce, Bakhtin, Greimas, Borges, and Derrida. Part three examines aspects of Eco's fiction. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Semiotics

Semiotics
Author: Robert E. Innis
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1985-06-22
Genre: Literary Criticism & Collections
ISBN: 9780253115324

"... fifteen texts which are essential reading for anyone interested in semiotics... This collection will surely become a standard text for those who teach semiotics, aesthetics or philosophy of language." -- International Philosophical Quarterly This volume presents the classic statements in semiotics and touches on a vast set of problems and themes -- philosophical, aesthetic, literary, cultural, biological, and anthropological.

Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 5, 1884–1896

Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 5, 1884–1896
Author: Charles S. Peirce
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 672
Release: 1993-12-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253016681

"Highly recommended." —Choice " . . . an important event for the world of philosophy. For the first time we have available in an intelligible form the writings of one of the greatest philosophers of the past hundred years." —The Times Literary Supplement Volume 5 of this landmark edition covers an important transition in Peirce's life, marked by a rekindled enthusiasm for speculative philosophy. The writings include essays relating to his all-embracing theory of categories as well as papers on logic and mathematics.

Telling Lives in India

Telling Lives in India
Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2004-12-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780253217271

Considers the meaning and nature of life history narrative in India.