The Cambridge history of Japanese literature /

The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving...

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Other Authors: Shirane, Haruo, 1951- (Editor), Suzuki, Tomi, 1951- (Editor), Lurie, David Barnett (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2016].
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Writing, Literacy, And The Origins Of Japanese Literature / David Lurie
  • 2. Myth And History In The Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, And Related Works / David Lurie
  • 3. Songs Of The Records And Chronicles / Torquil Duthie
  • 4. Fudoki Gazetteers / David Lurie
  • 5. Man'yoshu / H. Mack Horton
  • 6. Anthologization And Sino-Japanese Literature: Kaifuso and The Three Imperial Anthologies / H. Wiebke Denecke
  • 7. Introduction: Court Culture, Women, And The Rise Of Vernacular Literature / Haruo Shirane
  • 8. Sugawara No Michizane, A Heian Literatus And Statesman / Robert Borgen
  • 9. Kokinshu And Heian Court Poetry / Gustav Heldt
  • 10. Early Heian Court Tales / Joshua S. Mostow
  • 11. Genji Monogatari And Its Reception / Satoko Naito
  • 12. Late Courtly Romance / Joshua S. Mostow
  • 13. Premodern Commentary On The Classical Literary Canon / Lewis Cook
  • 14. Pillow Book Of Sei Shonagon / Haruo Shirane
  • 15. Heian Literary Diaries: From Tosa Nikki To Sarashina Nikki / Sonja Arntzen
  • 16. Heian Academy: Literati Culture From Minamoto No Shitago To Oe No Masafusa / Brian Steininger
  • 17. Heian Canons Of Chinese Poetry: Wakan Roeishu and Bai Juyi / Ivo Smits
  • 18. Literary Essence Of Our Court (Honcho Monzui) / Wiebke Denecke
  • 19. Vernacular Histories: Eiga Monogatari, Okagami, Gukansho / Elizabeth Oyler
  • 20. Heian Popular Songs: Imayo and Ryojin Hisho / Ivo Smits
  • 21. Introduction To Medieval Literature / Haruo Shirane
  • 22. Japanese Poetic Thought, From Earliest Times To The Thirteenth Century / A. E. Commons
  • 23. Shinkokin Wakashu: The New Anthology Of Ancient And Modern Japanese Poetry / Paul S. Atkins
  • 24. Waka In The Medieval Period: Patterns Of Practice And Patronage / Steven D. Carter
  • 25. Hyakunin Isshu And The Popularization Of Classical Poetry / Tomomi Yoshino
  • 26. Medieval Recluse Literature: Saigyo, Chomei, And Kenko / Jack Stoneman
  • 27. Medieval Women's Diaries: From Tamakiwaru To Takemukigaki / Christina Laffin
  • 28. Setsuwa (Anecdotal) Literature: Nihon Ryoiki To Kokon Chomonju / Haruo Shirane
  • 29. Rise Of Medieval Warrior Tales: Hogen Monogatari And Heiji Monogatari / Elizabeth Oyler
  • 30. Tales Of The Heike / David T. Bialock
  • 31. Late Medieval Warrior Tales: From Soga Monogatari To Taiheiki / Elizabeth Oyler
  • 32. Literature Of Medieval Zen Temples: Gozan (Five Mountains) And Ikkyu Sojun / Sonja Arntzen
  • 33. Renga (Linked Verse) / Steven D. Carter
  • 34. Noh Drama / Noel Pinnington
  • 35. Noh Drama Theory From Zeami To Zenchiku / Arthur H. Thornhill III
  • 36. Kyogen: Comic Plays That Turn Medieval Society Upside Down / Lawrence Kominz
  • 37. Late Medieval Popular Fiction And Narrated Genres: Otogizoshi, Kowakamai, Sekkyo, And Ko-Joruri / R. Keller Kimbrough
  • 38. Introduction To Early Modern Japanese Literature / Haruo Shirane
  • 39. Publishing And The Book In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries / P.F. Kornicki
  • 40. Forest Of Books: Seventeenth-Century Kamigata Commercial Prose / Laura Moretti
  • 41. Rise Of Haikai: Matsuo Basho Yosa Buson, And Kobayashi Issa / Haruo Shirane
  • 42. Ihara Saikaku And Ejima Kiseki: The Literature Of Urban Townspeople / Paul Schalow
  • 43. Representing Theater: Text And Performance In Kabuki And Bunraku / C. Andrew Gerstle
  • 44. Puppet Theater: From Early Joruri To The Golden Age / Janice Kanemitsu
  • 45. From The Beginnings Of Kabuki To The Playwrights Nanboku And Mokuami / Satoko Shimazaki
  • 46. Early To Mid-Edo Kanshi / Judith N. Rabinovitch and Timothy R. Bradstock
  • 47. Kanshibun In The Late Edo Period / Matthew Fraleigh
  • 48. Waka Practice And Poetics In The Edo Period / Roger Thomas
  • 49. Literary Thought In Confucian Ancient Learning And Kokugaku / Peter Flueckiger
  • 50. Bunjin (Literati) And Early Yomihon: Nankaku, Nankai, Buson, Gennai, Teisho, Ayatari, And Akinari / Lawrence E. Marceau
  • 51. Satiric Poetry: Kyoshi, Kyoka, And Senryu / Haruo Shirane
  • 52. Picture Books: From Akahon To Kibyoshi And Gokan / Michael Emmerich
  • 53. Birth Of Kokkeibon (Comic Novellas) / Masahiro Tanahashi
  • 54. Ninjobon And Romances For Women / Yasushi Inoue
  • 55. Development Of The Late Yomihon: Santo Kyoden And Kyokutei Bakin / Yoji Otaka
  • 56. Introduction: Nation Building, Literary Culture, And Language / Tomi Suzuki
  • 57. Kanshibun In The Meiji Period And Beyond / Matthew Fraleigh
  • 58. Translated Fiction, Political Fiction / Dennis Washburn
  • 59. Newspaper Serials In The Late Nineteenth Century / Satoru Saito
  • 60. Translation, Vernacular Style, And The Westernesque Femme Fatale In Modern Japanese Literature / Indra Levy
  • 61. Rise Of Modern Women's Literature / Rebecca Copeland
  • 62. Melodrama, Family Romance, And The Novel At The Turn Of The Century / Ken K. Ito
  • 63. Modern Japanese Poetry To The 1910's / Koji Kawamoto
  • 64. Between The Western And The Traditional: Mori Ogai, Nagai Kafu, And Tanizaki Jun'ichino / Shunji Chiba
  • 65. Natsume Soseki And The Theory And Practice Of Literature / Michael K. Bourdaghs
  • 66. New Era Of Women Writers / Joan E. Ericson
  • 67. Literary Marketplace, Politics, And History: 1900's-1940's / Hideo Kamei and Kyoko Kurita
  • 68. Canonization And Popularization: Anthologies And Literary Prizes / Edward Mack
  • 69. Colonialism, Translation, Literature: Takahama Kyoshi's Passage To Korea / Serk-Bae Suh
  • 70. Primitivism And Imperial Literature Of Taiwan And The South Seas / Robert Tierney
  • 71. From Empire To Nation: The Spatial Imaginary Of The 1920's To Early 1950's / Seiji M. Lippit
  • 72. Japanese Literature And Cinema From The 1910's To The 1950's / Hirokau Toeda
  • 73. Modem Drama / M. Cody Poulton
  • 74. Modem Poetry: 1910's To The Postwar Period / Toshiko Ellis
  • 75. Trends In Postwar Literature, 1945-1970's / Kensuke Kono and Ann Sherif
  • 76. Women's Fiction In The Postwar Era / Sharalyn Orbaugh
  • 77. Emergence Of Girls' Manga And Girls' Culture / Yuika Kitamura
  • 78. Modern Japanese Literature From Okinawa / Davinder L. Bhowmik
  • 79. Postwar Zainichi Writings: Politics, Language, And Identity / Melissa L. Wender
  • 80. Contemporary Japanese Fiction / Stephen Snyder.