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Chronicles of My Life
An American in the Heart of Japan
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2009
340 kr
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"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my …
Twenty Plays of the Nō Theatre
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1970
886 kr
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-- The New York Times Book Review
Tso Chuan
Av Wm. Theodore De Bary, C. T. Hsia m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
727 kr
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A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and …
Pleasures of Japanese Literature
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 1988
2208 kr
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Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to the Western world. The author, editor, or translator of nearly three dozen books of criticism and works of literature, Keene now offers an enjoyable …
Pleasures of Japanese Literature
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1993
303 kr
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Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to the Western world. The author, editor, or translator of nearly three dozen books of criticism and works of literature, Keene now offers an enjoyable …
Nō and Bunraku
Two Forms of Japanese Theatre
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1991
362 kr
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Donald Keene combines informative works on two forms of classical Japanese theater into a single volume. The No text looks at all aspects of this traditional theater form including its history, its stage and props, the use of music and dance in its performances, the plays as literature, and the …
Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature
Japanese Literature in the Modern Era: Fiction
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1999
745 kr
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This is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature. The Columbia paperback edition, with Donald Keene's new preface, includes an introduction, an appendix, glossary, index, and a …
Travelers of a Hundred Ages
The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1999
769 kr
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Donald Keene, hailed in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature," presents here a collection of premodern Japanese diaries that is both a literary history of this genre and a source of insight into Japanese life of the last thousand years. Ranging from …
Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature
Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 1999
3618 kr
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-- Los Angeles Times
Dawn to the West: A History of Japanese Literature
Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era: Poetry, Drama, Criticism
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1999
1062 kr
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-- Los Angeles Times
Modern Japanese Diaries
The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed Through Their Diaries
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1999
769 kr
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This is a collection of journals written by Japanese men and women--from samurai and other government officials to novelists and poets--who journeyed to America, Europe, and China between 1860 and 1920. The diaries faithfully record personal views of the countries and their cultures and sentiments …
World Within Walls
Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1999
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
500 kr
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The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's vast literary output, providing both lay …
Emperor of Japan
Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2002
2364 kr
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When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of …
Emperor of Japan
Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2005
325 kr
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When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly antiforeign, and committed to the traditions of …
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2002
991 kr
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The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese …
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2005
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
274 kr
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The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese …
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
The Creation of the Soul of Japan
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2003
1187 kr
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Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a …
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
The Creation of the Soul of Japan
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2006
298 kr
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Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald Keene, Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a …
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2010
312 kr
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The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible …
Winter Sun Shines In
A Life of Masaoka Shiki
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2013
991 kr
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Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from …
Winter Sun Shines In
A Life of Masaoka Shiki
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 2016
568 kr
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Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from …
First Modern Japanese
The Life of Ishikawa Takuboku
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2016
343 kr
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Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886-1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few years, his name is familiar to every literate Japanese. Takuboku's early death added to the sad …
Expatriates of No Country
The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene
Av Shirley Hazzard, Donald Keene m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
870 kr
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For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Brought together by the death of a mutual friend in the late 1970s, they discovered a profound connection built on mutual …
Expatriates of No Country
The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene
Av Shirley Hazzard, Donald Keene m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
207 kr
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For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature Donald Keene maintained a remarkable epistolary friendship. Brought together by the death of a mutual friend in the late 1970s, they discovered a profound connection built on mutual …
Five Modern Japanese Novelists
Av Donald Keene
E-bok, 2005
411 kr
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The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America''s preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese …
Frog in the Well
Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793–1841
Av Donald Keene
E-bok, 2006
505 kr
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Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his impoverished upbringing to his tragic suicide in exile, Kazan''s life and work reflected a turbulent period in Japan''s history. He was a famous artist, …
Chronicles of My Life
An American in the Heart of Japan
Av Donald Keene
E-bok, 2020
227 kr
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"Few memoirs have the concision, modesty, and charm that mark this late-life work by . . . America''s most renowned scholar and interpreter of Japan."—Foreword Reviews In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his …
Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720 - 1830
Av Donald Keene
Inbunden, 2010
2578 kr
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Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the story from 1798 to 1830. The author has incorporated the results of recent research by scholars in Japan and the West and made corrections in the text.
Anthology of Japanese Literature
From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1994
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
297 kr
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The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in this book. An introduction by Donald Keene …
Modern Japanese Literature
An Anthology
Av Donald Keene
Häftad, 1994
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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