Wicked stepmothers, traitorous brothers, cunning foxes, lonely princesses: There is no mistaking the world of the Brothers Grimm and the beloved fairy tales that have captured generations of readers. Now internationally acclaimed artist Shaun Tan shows us the beautiful, terrifying, amusing, and downright peculiar heart of these tales as never before seen.
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman and an introduction by renowned fairy-tale expert Jack Zipes, this stunning gallery of sculptural works will thrill and delight art lovers and fairy-tale aficionados alike.

The first collection of essays by the Nobel laureate. Derek Walcott has been publishing essays in "The New York Review of Books, The New Republic," and elsewhere for more than twenty years. "What the Twilight Says" collects these pieces to form a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau. On every subject he takes up, Walcott the essayist brings to bear the lyric power and syncretic intelligence that have made him one of the major poetic voices of our time.

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The best single introduction to European heresy.
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This volume presents an extensive collection of Medieval sources for the history of the popular heresies in Western Europe.

シリーズ二回配本第IV巻は、教えを実践することの文化的広がりを、「写経と仏画」および「仏教の娯楽」という二つの観点から説き明かす。【目 次】はしがき (船山 徹)第一章 写経と仏画――わが身で表す信仰 村田みおはじめに一 写経の功徳、奇跡と救済二 血字経と仏画――物語の力三 金字経――永遠に光り輝く経典おわりに第二章 酒・芸能・遊びと仏教の関係 石井公成はじめに一 酒と仏教二 芸能と仏教三 遊びと仏教四 仏法僧を笑うおわりに参考文献 / 図版一覧 / 索 引

在宋史研究中，有关体制性渠道信息供给的管控问题日益引起学界的关注，相比之下，关于国家权力对非正式渠道信息传播的支配和管理的研究则较为忽略。宋代形形色色的流言纠缠着复杂的社会心态和破坏因素，成为侵蚀政府权威和社会秩序的一股灰色力量，由流言而牵涉的相关问题折射着宋代社会的诸多面向，当是宋代历史研究中值得重视和深入发掘的议题。该成果主要以流言为中心考察宋代信息传播与管控，在概述宋代信息传播与政府规制、解读流言生发语境的基础上，分别从政治流言、经济流言、军事流言和灾异流言等方面进行较为系统深入的探讨。具体来说，将流言重置于“社会场”中加以审视，通过个案解析揭示流言的生成机理、流布规律以及应对机制，把握流言突生、运行和衰亡的动态过程；对流言传者和受者进行分析，比如“谁”散布流言，“怎样”和“为什么”散布流言？哪些人从流言的传播中获利？传受双方的互动关系怎样？通过对流言文本的分析把握流言的建构过程、传播层级和介质、各层级间的信息流动和影响因素、信息陈述内容及意向所发生的丰富变化；以心理分析为研究取向，透视被压抑在流言深处的社会不安心态和利益诉求，分析不同阶级、阶层和社会集团在特定历史时期的心理状况，探讨流言传播的心理效应。该研究提供了一个观照宋代社会的独特视角，勾画立体的社会生活镜像，同时也为当今社会流言的认识、预防、消解和控制提供宝贵的历史借鉴。

Materializing Magic Power paints a broad picture of the dynamics of popular religion in Taiwan. The first book to explore contemporary Chinese popular religion from its cultural, social, and material perspectives, it analyzes these aspects of religious practice in a unified framework and traces their transformation as adherents move from villages to cities.
In this groundbreaking study, Wei-Ping Lin offers a fresh perspective on the divine power of Chinese deities as revealed in two important material forms—god statues and spirit mediums. By examining the significance of these religious manifestations, Lin identifies personification and localization as the crucial cultural mechanisms that bestow efficacy on deity statues and spirit mediums. She further traces the social consequences of materialization and demonstrates how the different natures of materials mediate distinct kinds of divine power.
The first part of the book provides a detailed account of popular religion in villages. This is followed by a discussion of how rural migrant workers cope with challenges in urban environments by inviting branch statues of village deities to the city, establishing an urban shrine, and selecting a new spirit medium. These practices show how traditional village religion is being reconfigured in cities today.

《金元时期全真道宫观研究》集中探讨了全真道的宫观和宫观制度。宫观制度的基石是严格的道士出家制度。伴随着全真道的创立与兴盛、挫折与后弘，伴随着信徒的增加、宫观分布的广泛，道士由于师承而产生宗派，宫观由于财富的积累而出现了各种经济形式，政府遂建立起各级管理机构。本文努力遵循这一宫观演变的自然历程，展开叙述和议论。

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.J.M. Coetzee: What relationship do I have with my life history? Am I its conscious author, or should I think of myself as simply a voice uttering with as little interference as possible a stream of words welling up from my interior?Arabella Kurtz: One way of thinking about psychoanalysis is to say that it is aimed at setting free the narrative or autobiographical imagination.The Good Story is a fascinating dialogue about psychotherapy and the art of storytelling between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with training in literary studies. Coetzee and Kurtz consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both of their approaches is a concern with narrative. Working alone, the writer is in control of the story he or she tells. The therapist, on the other hand, collaborates with the patient in developing an account of the patient's life and identity that is both meaningful and true.In a meeting of minds that is illuminating and thought-provoking, the authors discuss both individual psychology and the psychology of the group: the school classroom, gangs and the settler nation, in which the brutal deeds of ancestors are accommodated into a national story. Drawing on great writers like Cervantes and Dostoevsky and psychoanalysts like Freud and Melanie Klein, Coetzee and Kurtz explore the human capacity for self-examination, our wish to tell our own life stories and the resistances we encounter along the way.

The winning volume in the 1987 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is To the Place of Trumpets. As James Merrill, distinguished poet and judge of the competition, has said: "Brigit Pegeen Kelly's poems suggest a kind of folk art-their clay washed of narrative grit, serviceably turned and fancifully decorated, fired, then filled at the creative instinct's oldest well. It is a pleasure to drink form this fine local pottery."

上篇：新唐書藝文志釋氏類の研究／下篇：北宋官蔵目録の研究／附篇：新唐書藝文志子録釋氏類輯校　の構成で、宋代の官修目録のうち、いずれも北宋の編にかかわる新唐志・『崇文總目』・『秘書續編』の三目について検討する。

The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life. "Such a synthesis has never been attempted before, and the author ... has performed this much-needed service with exceptional distinction and clarity of purpose."--Art Digest "Here is a book ... that tells us what became of the gods after the fall of Rome, in what strange disguises they lived on, and how they emerged in the Quattrocento with odd attributes and symbols the ancients never knew.... It is a formidable task, demanding vast learning in many fields; and it is brilliantly performed."--The Times Literary Supplement Jean Seznec was for many years a member of the faculty at Harvard University, and up until his death in 1983 he taught at All Souls College, Oxford, England. The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted look at the far-reaching role played by mythology in Renaissance intellectual and emotional life. "Such a synthesis has never been attempted before, and the author ... has performed this much-needed service with exceptional distinction and clarity of purpose."--Art Digest "Here is a book ... that tells us what became of the gods after the fall of Rome, in what strange disguises they lived on, and how they emerged in the Quattrocento with odd attributes and symbols the ancients never knew.... It is a formidable task, demanding vast learning in many fields; and it is brilliantly performed."--The Times Literary Supplement Jean Seznec was for many years a member of the faculty at Harvard University, and up until his death in 1983 he taught at All Souls College, Oxford, England.

《中国古代书院》内容简介：书院之名始于唐中叶贞元年问官方设立的丽正书院和集贤殿书院，其职责为收集整理、校勘修订图书，供朝廷咨询，兼作皇帝侍读、侍讲，类似宫廷图书馆一唐末五代，读书士子多隐居避乱读书山林，后发展为聚书授徒讲学，常以书院命名读书讲学之地，遂演化为一种教育组织形式。

《成都文类》是南宋庆元年间四川安抚制度使袁说友编纂的一部有关成都诗文的分类纂次的总集，共五十卷。所收作品上起西汉，下至宋孝宗淳熙年间，共一千余篇，内容则为历代文人对蜀中尤其是成都山川风物、文物古迹、风土人情的咏赞。此书搜采范围颇为广泛，保存了大量当时所能见到的珍贵资料，其涉及范围遍及全蜀，具有很高的文献价值。

《音乐人类学》来源于我十五年间的思考以及同文化人类学和民族音乐学领域里的同事和学者们的探讨。文化人类学和民族音乐学这两个学科之间的分界线常常并不清晰，或许本该如此。关于人类学并没有什么需要解释的，因为它的内容相当清晰，目标也至少界定适度。

《马可•波罗行纪》是中世纪欧洲影响最大、流传最广的书籍之一。至今东西方学术界的马可•波罗研究皆历时长久。本书从马可•波罗出发，着眼于礼俗领域，运用文本比勘方法，重点利用新出碑刻史料，研究元代中国的一幅幅历史场景。
《马可·波罗与元代中国》分为四个部分：“导论篇”全面梳理了马可·波罗研究的范畴、方法，及19世纪至今的研究史；“研究篇”研究马可•波罗所见元朝礼俗、物质文化等，聚焦中外交流，尝试解开《马可•波罗行纪》书中未解之疑；“评介篇”评介西方学术界与本书主题相关的几部最新著作；“译文篇”则译介了部分西方重要的论文。
经过深入讨论，本书一方面证明了《马可•波罗行纪》在礼俗文化方面的史料价值，另一方面揭示了蒙元时代欧亚大陆多元文化交流的众多侧面。

西方中世纪史和中国汉、唐、宋的历史，长期以来是中外史家研究的重点领域。以前者而言，本书包括了由西方重量级的专家的论文，而北大历史学系的专家也提供了高质量的论文。两者从比较和跨文化的角度，对中国汉朝以降和西罗马帝国消失之后的历史，从比较文化等各个方面开展研究。论文涉及许多重要的课题，其荦荦大者为帝国之后政治动荡、政治秩序的重建；文化、族群的融合和交流；汉唐帝国与中亚和西亚政权之间的联系（如丝绸之路）；史学写作形式的变更和历史意识的重构及其与文化认同之间的关系。本书内容还突破了中西比较的界限，由一些研究中亚、西亚的专家对公元3世纪至公元12世纪的整个欧亚大陆的历史，从事相关的探讨。本书的编排，基本分为两个部分。第1部分处理帝国之后历史的变迁，第二部分探讨相关时期史学的更新及与历史变化之间的互动和关联。

吐蕃统治时期敦煌密教，是基于大的历史与宗教背景下的一个小社会着眼点。印度密教、汉传密教与吐蕃密教的传播与发展共同组成了这个大的宗教背景，中唐时期汉地与吐蕃的社会进程共同组成了这个大的历史背景，吐蕃占领下的敦煌则是这个被聚焦的小社会，它的密教特色既具有代表性又具有特殊性。赵晓星著的这本《吐蕃统治时期敦煌密教研究》整理了与吐蕃统治时期敦煌密教有关的大量文献与图像资料，对吐蕃时期的敦煌密教进行了一次系统的研究。全书分上下两篇，计24章内容。上篇为以敦煌文献与图像为中心的综合研究，下篇是以莫高窟第361窟为中心的石窟个案研究。本书的研究对敦煌密教发展史有重要的意义。

The Etymologicon springs from Mark Forsyth's Inky Fool blog on the strange connections between words. It's an occasionally ribald, frequently witty and unerringly erudite guided tour of the secret labyrinth that lurks beneath the English language, taking in monks and monkeys, film buffs and buffaloes, and explaining precisely what the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening.