The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays : Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century.

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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 zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and misc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carter, Steven D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Japanese essays > Translations into English.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Japanese essays
Translations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. Beginnings; 1. The Pillow Book; 2. Essays in Idleness; II. The Late Medieval Era; 3. Conversations with Shōtetsu; 4. "To Unify the Nation and Restore Civil Society"; 5. "Cottage of Dreams" and "Three Loves"; 6. A Tenbun Miscellany; III. The Edo Period; 7. Laughs to Keep You Awake; 8. "On Ohara"; 9. Haikai Prose; 10. Amusements; 11. Window Musings; 12. A Miscellany of Stories; 13. Chats with Myself; 14. Jeweled Comb Basket; 15. Idle Chats Beneath a Northern Window; 16. Blossoms and the Moon.
  • 17. Year by Year: A Miscellany18. Behind the Koto; 19. Shunparo's Jottings; 20. Unusual People of the Modern Age and Kanden's Crop of Jottings; 21. Hoary Stories; 22. Haikai Prose; 23. Clouds of Floating Grasses; IV. The Modern Period; 24. Autumn Ensemble; 25. Short Works from Long Days; 26. "Snow"; 27. "Desk"; 28. "Fireworks"; 29. "Laughter"; 30. "Various Thoughts on the Great Kanto Earthquake" and "My Moral Precepts for Everyday Life"; 31. "Master Hyakken's Idle Fantasies," "Bumpy Road," and "A Long Fence"; 32. "The Image of an Author."
  • 33. "Baby Sparrow," "Turtledoves," and "Morning Glories"34. Esprit and Humor; 35. "Sleepless Nights" and "A Bed for My Books"; 36. "On Being Down with a Cold"; 37. "The Road"; 38. "Kitchen," "Raindrops," and "A Memento of the Season"; 39. "On Surgery" and "Rainy Day"; 40. "Looking for Gloves"; 41. One, We Count, Then . . .; 42. Sunday Musings; 43. Not Much of a Book, but Please ... and Just Be Sure You're Not a Bother to Anyone; 44. "Myna Bird"; 45. "Concerning the Order of Culture"; 46. "On Zuihitsu; Permissions.

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