Keene The First Modern Japanese

The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54223-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

A biography of Japanese tanka master Ishikawa Takuboku, who pioneered an unmistakably modern poetic style.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keene, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Takuboku, Modern Poet
2. Takuboku in Tokyo
3. Takuboku the Schoolteacher
4. Exile to Hokkaido
5. Hakodate and Sapporo
6. Takuboku in Otaru
7. A Winter in Kushiro
8. Poetry or Prose?
9. Takuboku Joins the Asahi
10. The Romaji Diary
11. The Sorrow of Takuboku and Setsuko
12. Failure and Success
13. Takuboku on Poetry
14. The High Treason Trial
15. The Last Days
16. Takuboku's Life After Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author and translator of more than thirty books on Japanese literature and culture. His Columbia University Press books include The Winter Sun Shines In: A Life of Masaoka Shiki (2013), So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers (2010), Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (2009), Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841 (2006), and Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852–1912 (2002), as well as a definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature.