Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century

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Columbia University Press, 1999 - Education - 1265 pages
Donald Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and narrative aplomb to guide readers through the first nine hundred years of Japanese literature--a period that not only defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose but also produced some of its greatest works. Covering courtly fiction, Buddhist writings, war tales, diaries, poems, and more, Seeds in the Heart explores a vast and variegated treasury of writings. Detailed textual examinations of classic texts--from the Kojiki to The Tale of Genji, from The Pillow Book of Sei Shônagon to Zeami's Nô plays--allow students, lay readers, and scholars a new understanding and enjoyment of this great literature.

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About the author (1999)

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of a multivolume history of Japanese literature, of which Seeds in the Heart is the first part, and at least thirty other books, including many translations from Japanese literature. He has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

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Title Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century
History of Japanese literature, Donald Keene
Contributor Donald Keene
Edition reprint
Publisher Columbia University Press, 1999
ISBN 0231114419, 9780231114417
Length 1265 pages
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Education / General
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / Asian / General
Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
   
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