Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)
| PUBLISHER | Columbia University Press (04/21/2008) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.
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Product Details
ISBN-13:
9780231144155
ISBN-10:
0231144156
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
552
Carton Quantity:
12
Product Dimensions:
6.22 x 1.04 x 9.09 inches
Weight:
1.74 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Bibliography,
Index,
Price on Product,
Maps,
Illustrated,
Abridged
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Reference | Research
Reference | Asian - General
Reference | Asian - Japanese
Grade Level:
Post Graduate
and up
Dewey Decimal:
895.608
Library of Congress Control Number:
2008274598
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This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.
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Editor:
Shirane, Haruo
Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, is a specialist in Japanese literature and culture, with special interest in prose fiction, poetry, and drama; the interaction between popular and elite cultures; and issues of cultural memory. He is the author and editor of over twenty books. His most recent book, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons (2012), explores the cultural construction of nature across a wide spectrum of media and arts.
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