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Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)

Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)

Shirane, Haruo

Hardcover

Series: Translations from the Asian Classics (Hardcover)

Literary CriticismGeneral ReferenceFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 0231144148
ISBN13: 9780231144148
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Apr 21 2008
Pages: 552
Weight: 1.98
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.

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