Seeds in the Heart

Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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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 Shonagon to Zeami's No plays-allow students, lay readers, and scholars a new understanding and enjoyment of this great literature.

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Utgivningsdatum:1999-10-06
Mått:231 x 155 x 62 mm
Vikt:1 766 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:1 265
Förlag:Columbia University Press
ISBN:9780231114417

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

The Middle Ages Introduction 16. Tales of Warfare 17. The Age of the Shin Kokinshu 18. Waka Poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods 19. Buddhist Writing of the Kamakura Period 20. Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period 21. Diaries of the Kamakura Period 22. Essays in Idleness 23. Medieval War Tales 24. Renga 25. Diaries and Other Prose of the Muromachi Period 26. No and Kyogen as Literature 27. Literature of the Five Mountains 28. Muromachi Fiction: Otogi-Zoshi 29. The Late Sixteenth Century Glossary Selected List of Translations into English Index