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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1284 pages
File Size : 12,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231114417
Donald Keene, a noted authority in the field, offers a guide through the first 900 years of Japanese literature. This period not only defined the unique properties of Japanese prose and prosody, but also produced some of its greatest works.
Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316368289
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.
Author : Laurel Rasplica Rodd
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 27,62 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780887272493
This book is the first complete translation of the tenth-century work Kokinshu, one of the most important anthologies of the Japanese classical tradition.
Author : Albert Richard Davis
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 33,77 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
An anthology of mostly "shi" poems, that is the form of poetry that developed as a result of the influence of the West.
Author : Robert N. Huey
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780674008533
Scholars have often taken Shinkokinshu (1205) to represent a nostalgia for greatness presumed to have been lost in the wars of the late 1100s. The author argues that the compilers of this anthology of waka poetry instead saw their collection as a "new" beginning, a revitalization and affirmation of courtly traditions, and not a reaction to loss.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004288295
The Shinkokinshū: A New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (ca. 1205) is supreme among the twenty-one anthologies of court poetry ordered by the Japanese emperors between the tenth and fifteenth centuries in terms of overall literary art, the high quality of the almost two thousand poems included, and the depth of poetic sentiment. Laurel Rasplica Rodd's complete translation allows the reader to appreciate the elaborate integration of the anthologized poems into a single whole by means of chronological procession or imagistic association from one poem to the next that was perfected in the Shinkokinshū by Retired Emperor Gotoba, himself a serious poet, and the courtiers he appointed as compilers, including Fujiwara no Teika, one of the greatest of Japanese poets.
Author : Shūichi Katō
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Japanese literature
ISBN : 9781873410486
A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single volume paperback which concentrates on the development of Japanese literature.
Author : Helen Craig McCullough
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804712583
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author : P. G. O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134245378
Special areas: Japanese language, festivals, Noh theatre.
Author : Armando Martins Janeira
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1462912133
Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese poet Torga and the haiku master Issa, and between the picaresque novel in Japan and in the West. Contrastive studies are also made into such concepts as time, nature, love, and tragedy. This broad yet incisive survey of Japanese literarily genres and themes is more than a comparative study of literature, however; it is an attempt to grasp the core of Japanese culture by setting it against world culture. From this born a complex of new ideas and problems, and author is able to probe the extent of Western influence on Japanese fiction, poetry, and essays in the past hundred years.
