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...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Japonés |
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Ithaca, NY :
East Asia Program, Cornell Univ.,
©2008.
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Series: | Cornell East Asia series ;
142. |
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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