Seeds in the Heart

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-231-11441-7
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1265 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 1768 g

Donald Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and narrative aplomb to guide readers through the first nine hundred years of Japanese literature a period that not only defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose but also produced some of its greatest works. Covering courtly fiction, Buddhist writings, war tales, diaries, poems, and more, Seeds in the Heart explores a vast and variegated treasury of writings. Detailed textual examinations of classic texts from the Kojiki to The Tale of Genji, from The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon to Zeami's Nô plays allow students, lay readers, and scholars a new understanding and enjoyment of this great literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keene, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Middle AgesIntroduction16. Tales of Warfare17. The Age of the Shin Kokinshü18. Waka Poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods19. Buddhist Writing of the Kamakura Period20. Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period21. Diaries of the Kamakura Period22. Essays in Idleness23. Medieval War Tales24. Renga25. Diaries and Other Prose of the Muromachi Period26. Nö and Kyögen as Literature27. Literature of the Five Mountains28. Muromachi Fiction: Otogi-Zöshi29. The Late Sixteenth CenturyGlossarySelected List of Translations into EnglishIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of a multivolume history of Japanese literature, of which Seeds in the Heart is the first part, and at least thirty other books, including many translations from Japanese literature. He has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.