Essays on Japan - Between Aesthetics and Literature

Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra's essays written in the past ten
years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.

About the author

Michael F. Marra (1956-2011) ) was professor of Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the faculties of Osaka University of Foreign Studies, the University of Tokyo, the University of Kyoto, and the University of Southern California and was chosen by the governor of Nara Prefecture as goodwill ambassador for the celebrations in 2010 of the 1,300th anniversary of the foundation of Nara as capital of the ancient Yamato state (710-2010).

Product details

• Authors: Michael Marra
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2010
• EAN: 9789004189775
• ISBN: 978-90-04-18977-5
• No. of pages: 520
• Weight: 925 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions