Dawn to the West - A History of Japanese Literature - Japanese Literature of the Modern Era - Poetry, Drama, Cri

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-231-11439-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 698 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Keene, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefacePoetry in Traditional FormsIntroductionThe Modern TankaThe Modern HaikuPoetry in New FormsIntroductionThe Meiji Period (1868-1912)The Taisho Period (1912-1926)The Showa Period (from 1927)The Modern DramaIntroductionThe Literature of Modern KabukiThe Litearture of Shimpa and ShingekiModern CriticismIntroductionThe Meiji Period (1868-1912)The Taisho Period (1912-1926)The Showa Period (from 1927)GlossarySelected List of Translations into EnglishIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature, as well as its most indefatigable translator," Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author, editor, or translator of over thirty books of criticism and works of literature, including No and Bunraku, Twenty Plays of the No Theater, Major Plays of Chikamatsu, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Three Plays by Kobo Abe, Modern Japanese Diaries, Essays in Idleness, andTravelers of a Hundred Ages (all published by Columbia).