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The secret island and the enticing flame : worlds of memory, discovery and loss in Japanese poetry /

The three "essays" in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry-classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)-but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes are childhood and the loss of innocenc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cranston, Edwin A., 1932-2021
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : East Asia Program, Cornell Univ., ©2008.
Colección:Cornell East Asia series ; 142.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • In the Dark of the Year: Love Poems from the Japanese translated with prose settings
  • Young Akiko: The Literary Debut of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)
  • The Dark at the Bottom of the Dish: Fishing for Myth in the Poetry of Mizuno Ruriko
  • Sources
  • Notes