Japanese
This comprehensive introduction to the Japanese language consists of six parts. Following the introductory section, it explores the Japanese lexicon, grammatical foundations, major clause types, clause linkage, and language usage. The discussion o...
Routledge Course in Japanese Translation
The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese. This one semester advanced course in Japanese translation is designed to raise aware...
Japanese
This comprehensive introduction to the Japanese language consists of six parts. Following the introductory section, it explores the Japanese lexicon, grammatical foundations, major clause types, clause linkage, and language usage. The discussion o...
The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics
The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, is a rapidly growing research area. This book, designed to serve as a concise reference for research...
150 Favorite Crochet Motifs from Tokyo's Kazekobo Studio
A first-of-its-kind Japanese crochet stitch dictionary! For the first time in English, popular knitwear designer Yoko Hatta shows you creative ways to use a little leftover yarn and your own sense of design. You'll find round, square, triangle, po...
Suggested in the Stars
It's hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth--Yoko Tawada's rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change--but surprising her readers is what Tawada does best: its sequel, Suggested in the Stars, delivers exploits even more poignant and shambolic. As Hiruko--whose Land of Sushi has vanished into the sea and who is still searching for someone who speaks her mother tongue--and her new friends travel onward, they begin opening up to one another in new and extraordinary ways. They try to help their friend Susanoo regain his voice, both for his own good and so he can speak with Hiruko--and amid many often hilarious misunderstandings (some linguistic in nature)--they empower each other against despair. Coping with carbon footprint worries but looping singly and in pairs, they hitchhike, take late-night motorcycle rides, and hop on the train (learning about railway strikes but also packed-train-yoga) to
Verwandlungen Tübinger Poetik Vorlesungen
Verwandlungen Tübinger Poetik Vorlesungen
Das Bad
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Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not 'imitation' per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing indefinitely. How perfect that Yoko Tawada's first essay in English dives deep into her lifelong fascination with the possibilities opened up by cross-hybridizing languages. Tawada famously writes in both Japanese and German, but her interest in language reaches beyond any mere dichotomy. The term 'exophonic,' which she first heard in Senegal, has a special allure for the author: 'I was already familiar with similar terms, 'immigrant literature, ' or 'creole literature, ' but 'exophonic' had a much broader meaning, referring to the general experience of existing outside of one's mother tongue.' Tawada revels in explorations of cross-cultural and intra-language possibilities (and along the way deals several nice sharp
La Fórmula Preferida del Profesor / The Housekeeper and the Professor
La novela que lanz a la fama a Yoko Ogawa. Un canto a la amistad, el amor y el respeto, y una apasionante introducci n al mundo de los n meros. Un mes de marzo, una agencia de colocaci n env a a una joven empleada del hogar a casa de un hura o profesor retirado. Sin embargo, no es un profesor cualquiera: anta o fue un reconocido matem tico pero, tras un tr gico accidente, solo recuerda lo ocurrido en los ltimos ochenta minutos. Aunque siguen apasion ndole los n meros, debe apuntar las cosas importantes en papelitos para repasarlas todos los d as, incluida la identidad de quienes lo rodean; una situaci n que lo convierte en alguien muy vulnerable. Sin embargo, el profesor ir aceptando en su vida la irrupci n de la asistenta y de su hijo de diez a os, con quien comparte una afici n: el b isbol. Poco a poco se fraguar entre los tres una hermosa relaci n fundada en el afecto y en la transmisi n del saber. Una novela que devuelve la esperanza en el alma humana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Yoko
The Art of Yoko Tanji
Yoko Tanji's first art book featuring selected works from her nearly 20-year career Yoko Tanji is a Japanese illustrator with a career spanning nearly 20 years. She began using digital tools such as pen tabs in the early days when they were becoming more common and has also explored artistic expression in her art through various methods and styles, from analog illustrations such as watercolors, oil paintings, and prints, to comic illustrations. With this variety of drawing styles, Tanji has been active in a wide range of fields, including book illustration, illustrations for children's books, and image boards for animated films. She has created more than 300 illustrations throughout her career. This long-awaited book contains selected works from her commercial works as well as illustrations from her popular original series, 'I hate Mondays.'
Scattered All Over the Earth
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmar...
Memoirs of a Polar Bear
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear¿has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the¿New Yorker¿as "Yoko Tawada's magnificent strangeness"-Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as...
The Emissary
Japan, after suffering from a massive irreparable disaster, cuts itself off from the world. Children are so weak they can barely stand or walk: the only people with any get-go are the elderly. Mumei lives with his grandfather Yoshiro, who worries ...
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel
Patrik, who sometimes calls himself "the patient," is a literary researcher living in present-day Berlin. The city is just coming back to life after lockdown, and his beloved opera houses are open again, but Patrik cannot leave the house...
The Naked Eye
"Tawada's slender accounts of alienation achieve a remarkable potency."-Michael Porter, The New York Times
Where Europe Begins
A gorgeous collection of fantastic and dreamlike tales by one of the world's most innovative contemporary writers.
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language pros...
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada's most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, "fast-moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has th...
Tokyo Street Style
Tokyo is home to a creative and daring street-style scene, rich with subcultures and shaped by constant motion. In Tokyo Street Style, fashion writer Yoko Yagi explores influential trends, covering an eclectic range of styles from kawaii cute to g...
Descendants of Darkness, Vol. 4
The business of Death is never done. Asato Tsuzuki works as a Shinigami, or "Guardian o Death," in the Ministry of Hades. It's his duty to make sure that the souls of the dead reach the afterlife, but contrary ghosts and humanity's evils...
That Wolf-boy Is Mine! 3
Komugi's not sure what to expect when her family moves to the remote northern island of Hokkaido, and she starts at a new high school. But she certainly didn't expect a boy to come up to her and say, 'Gee... You smell good!' That boy is Yu Ogami, ...
YoRHa: Pearl Harbor Descent Record - A NieR:Automata Story 01
A manga series set in the universe of the award-winning, post-apocalyptic action RPG NieR: Automata The distant future. Invaders from another world attack without warning, unleashing a new type of threat: weapons known as 'machine lifeforms.' In the face of this insurmountable threat, mankind is driven from Earth and takes refuge on the Moon. It is the year 11941, and the long war against the machines rages on. In an attempt to break the deadlock, the Council of Humanity forms a new infantry unit of female androids: YoRHa. Deployed to the planet's surface, these soldiers now fight to recapture Earth for the glory of mankind...
YoRHa: Pearl Harbor Descent Record - A NieR:Automata Story 02
A manga series set in the universe of the award-winning, post-apocalyptic action RPG NieR: Automata Of the sixteen YoRHa androids who landed on Earth to recapture it from the enemy machine life-forms, only four have survived the descent. Command denies their request to have their mission canceled, however, leaving them stranded on Earth with no choice but to attempt to carry out an impossible mission. Immediately beset by the machines, the YoRHa units are saved by the appearance of another group of android survivors from a much earlier war. Though the older androids are suspicious of the newer ones, an uneasy alliance is forged. But this tenuous peace is about to be put to the test now that buried secrets are coming to light...
Das nackte Auge
Die Heldin der Erzählung ist ein Mädchen aus Saigon, das 1988, sie ist 16 und geht noch zur Schule, in die DDR eingeladen wird. Dort wird sie von einem Studenten aus Westdeutschland 'entführt' er denkt, dass ein westliches Land besser für dieses begabte Mädchen sei. Und nimmt es mit seine Heimatstadt Bochum. Sie spricht nur Russisch, und fühlt sich sehr einsam in dieser Stadt. Irgendwann hört sie davon, dass die alte Bahnstrecke von Moskau nach Paris durch Bochum führt. Sie findet zwar die Bahn, aber keinen Bahnhof. Eines Nachts, in einem Traum springt sie auf den Zug Richtung Moskau auf. Sie hofft, dass sie über Moskau zurück nach Vietnam kommen kann, da ihr Cousin dort studiert. Aber sie nahm den Zug in die falsche Richtung, und kommt stattdessen in Paris an. Dort bleibt sie bei einer Frau aus Vietnam, die sie im Zug getroffen hat. Doch sie weiß nicht, was sie in Paris ohne Visum tun kann, sie fürchtet, von der Polizei festgenommen zu werden. So verbringt sie ihre Zeit im Kino. Sie
Wo Europa anfängt & Ein Gast
Wo Europa anfängt & Ein Gast
Etüden im Schnee
Etüden im Schnee
SINoALICE 04
With creative direction and world-building by the inimitable Yoko Taro, the mind behind the NieR and Drakengard universes, comes... SINoALICE, a gorgeous and gory mobile RPG that blurs the line between dreams and reality, fairy tales and fact And now you can read the manga adaptation of the popular game The ultimate battle royale advances to the next stage as the stakes grow ever higher In these pages, the battle rages on between playing fair and playing dirty, between blood and dreams, and between power and ambition. The game has even begun to suck in innocent citizens against this backdrop of lives taken and lost. Snow, who seeks to destroy the game itself, faces off at last against Cinderella, who only craves victory. But could the emergence of yet another character shake up their roles? As friends and hopes are torn asunder, the deadly game marches ever onward