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Classical Japanese - Annotated by Haruo Shirane (Hardcover)

Name: Classical Japanese - Annotated by Haruo Shirane (Hardcover)
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Classical Japanese: A Grammar is a comprehensive, and practical guide to classical Japanese.
About the Author: Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.
552 Pages
Foreign Language Study, Japanese

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About the Book

"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 now available for purchase as a separate volume.

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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.

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A significant contribution to the field of premodern Japanese language and literary studies.--Stephen D. Miller "Monumenta Nipponica"

This comprehensive guide... includes in-depth explanations, exercises and literary excerpts useful to beginners as well as advanced speakers.-- "Columbia College Today"

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.

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Dimensions (Overall): 11.18 Inches (H) x 8.6 Inches (W) x 1.39 Inches (D)

Weight: 3.32 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 552

Genre: Foreign Language Study

Sub-Genre: Japanese

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Hardcover

Author: Haruo Shirane

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Language: English

Street Date: July 27, 2005

TCIN: 1007423451

UPC: 9780231135245

Item Number (DPCI): 315-00-0201

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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