Traditional Japanese Literature - Abridged

Informationen zum Autor Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University, is the author and editor of numerous books, including, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts; Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production; Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600; Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600¿1900; Classical Japanese: A Grammar; Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho; and Bridge of Dreams: Poetics of the Tale of Genji. Klappentext Stretching from ancient times to the late medieval period, Traditional Japanese Literature spans both high and popular styles and contains key examples of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, Man¿yoshu, and Kokinshu. He preserves his comprehensive survey of secular and religious anecdotes (setsuwa) as well as classical poems with extensive commentary. He features classic no drama; selections from influential war epics; and notable essays on poetry, fiction, history, and religion. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Historical Periods, Major Texts and Authors, and Terms Introduction 1. The Ancient Period 2. The Heian Period 3. The Kamakura Period 4. The Muromachi Period English-Language Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Shirane, Haruo Shirane, Haruo (Editor Shirane, Shirane Haruo
• Assisted by: Haruo Shirane (Editor), Haruo (Editor Shirane (Editor), Sonja Arntzen (Translation), Robert Borgen (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780231157315
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15731-5
• No. of pages: 600
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 237 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from Asian Classics (COUP)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japanese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry)