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The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays : Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century.
A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a Meiji-period novelist, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsua uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and misc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a Meiji-period novelist, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsua uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. Springing from a variety of social, artistic, political, and professional discourses, z. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (810 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780231537551 0231537557 |