An East Gate Book

Copyright © 1994 by Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint
previously published material, which has been adapted for the present volume:

Columbia University Press for "An Account of My Hut" by Paul Anderer,
" Kālidāsa Śakuntalɑ + ̄" and " The Mahɑ + ̄bhɑ + ̄rata" by Barbara Stoler Miller, and
"The Poetry of Matsuo Bashō" and "The Tale of Genji" by Haruo Shirane, from
Approaches to the Asian Classics, Wm. Theodore de Bary, ed., copyright © 1987
by Columbia University Press.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., for " The Tale of Genji" by Edward Seidensticker,
and "Tang Poetry" by Burton Watson from The Great Ideas Today,
copyright © 1987 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

Permission for reprinting the translations of the waka
by Ono no Komachihas been granted by:
Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press, Anthology of Japanese Literature,
edited by Donald Keene, copyright © 1955 by Grove Press.

Stanford University Press, Japanese Court Poetry, by Robert Brower
and Earl Miner, copyright © 1961 by the
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Stanford University Press, Kokin Waka Shū: The First Imperial Anthology
of Japanese Poetry, translated by Helen Craig McCullough, copyright © 1985
by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Masterworks of Asian literature in comparative perspective:
A guide for teaching / edited by Barbara Stoler Miller.
p. cm. -- (Columbia project on Asia in the core curriculum)

Includes index.
"An East Gate book."

ISBN 1-56324-257-5 (C).--ISBN 1-56324-258-3 (P)

1. Oriental literature--Translations into English. 2. Literature, Comparative.
3. Chinese literature--History and criticism.
4. Japanese literature--History and criticism.
5. Indic literature-History and criticism. 6. Asia in literature.
I. Miller Barbara Stoler. II. Series
PJ409.M38 1993
809'.8895--dc20
93-24473
CIP

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