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• Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Travis Workman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2010), by Julia C. Bullock (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Shikibu, and Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, contrib. by Amy Lowell
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Songs to Make the Dust Dance: The Ryojin Hisho of Twelfth-Century Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Yung-Hee Kim (HTML at UC Press)

• To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1979), by Noël Burch, ed. by Annette Michelson (page images and PDF with commentary at Michigan)

• Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas (Michigan Papers in Chinese Studies #19; Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, c1975), ed. by J. I. Crump and William P. Malm (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2010), by Julia C. Bullock (PDF with commentary at Hawaii)

• Plays of Old Japan: The 'No' (London: W. Heinemann, 1913), trans. by Marie Carmichael Stopes and Jōji Sakurai, contrib. by Baron Kato (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Certain Noble Plays of Japan, ed. by Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound, contrib. by W. B. Yeats (Gutenberg text)
• The No Plays of Japan, by Arthur Waley (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Hundred Verses From Old Japan, Being a Translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu, trans. by William N. Porter (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Master-Singers of Japan: Being Verse Translations From the Japanese Poets (London: John Murray [1914]), trans. by Clara A. Walsh (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Japanese Haiku (1955), ed. by Peter Beilenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Shadowings (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1919), by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Japanese Haiku (1955), ed. by Peter Beilenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• A Hundred Verses From Old Japan, Being a Translation of the Hyaku-nin-isshiu, trans. by William N. Porter (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (Boston And New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920), by Lady Shikibu Murasaki, Izumi Shikibu, and Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi, contrib. by Amy Lowell
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Plays of Old Japan: The 'No' (London: W. Heinemann, 1913), trans. by Marie Carmichael Stopes and Jōji Sakurai, contrib. by Baron Kato (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Cannery Boat, by Takiji Kobayashi, and Other Japanese Short Stories (New York: International Publishers, c1933), contrib. by Takiji Kobayashi, Seikichi Fujimori, Takiji Kobayashi, Denji Kuroshima, Sanji Kishi, Teppei Kataoka, Naoshi Tokunaga, and Fusao Hayashi (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Dictionary of Haiku, Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods, by Jane Reichhold (HTML at ahapoetry.com)

• The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, c2018), by Eric Downing
  • Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press
  • PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at terrenceberres.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at CAPA)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Michigan
  • Gutenberg text
• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at CAPA)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Eight Harvard Poets (New York: L. J. Gomme, 1917), contrib. by E. E. Cummings, S. Foster Damon, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Stewart Mitchell, William A. Norris, Dudley Poore, and Cuthbert Wright (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

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