Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Hardcover

Shirane, Haruo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231135246 ISBN 13: 9780231135245

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2005

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 now available for purchase as a separate volume.

About this title

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.

Review:

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

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0231135246
• ISBN 13: 9780231135245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 552