Classical Japanese - Annotated by Haruo Shirane (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P> "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.<P>Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Classical Japanese: A Grammar</i> 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. <p/>Classical Japanese: A Grammar - Exercise Answers and Tables (ISBN: 978-0-231-13530-6) is now available for purchase as a separate volume.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>This comprehensive guide... includes in-depth explanations, exercises and literary excerpts useful to beginners as well as advanced speakers.--Columbia College Today<br><br>A significant contribution to the field of premodern Japanese language and literary studies.--Stephen D. Miller "Monumenta Nipponica "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji</i> and <i>Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho</i>; and an editor of <i>Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature</i> and <i>Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900</i>.
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