Approaches to the Oriental classics
Subtitle: Asian literature and thought in general education.
By: Edited by Wm. Theodore De Bary.
Contributors: De Bary, William Theodore, 1919- ed.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Oriental literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Description: This work discusses the Oriental classics and compares them with Western classical thought.
Notes: "Reading lists": p. [256]-262.
"Proceedings of a conference held at Columbia University, September 12 and 13, 1958."
Table of contents: title: Oriental classics and the teaching of the humanities.  Opening remarks / Jacques Barzun; title: Great books - east and west / Mark Van Doren; title: Education in a multicultural world / Thomas Berry; title: On exploiting the Greek analogy / Moses Hadas; title: Books and world culture / Ahmed Bokhári; title: Some great books of Oriental tradition; title: The Qur'an / Arthur Jeffery; title: Ibn Khaldūn / Muhsin Mahdi; title: The Upanishads / George Borworth Burch; title: Indian and Greek epics / Robert Antoine; title: The Sanskrit classic : Shakuntalā / John D. Mitchell; title: The analects of Confucius / Herman L. Sinaiko; title: The Lotus Sūtra / Wing-tsit Chan; title: The Chinese novel / Yi-tse Mei Feuerwerker; title: The Tale of Genji / Donald Keene; title: The poetry of the Far East in a general education / Kenneth Rexroth; title: Practical problems in the teaching of Oriental humanities.  Asian literature in comparative courses : some practical problems / G.L. Anderson; title: Oriental humanities and the non-Orientalists / Arthur Danto.