In Search of Nature - The Japanese Writer Tayama Katai (1872-1930)

In Search of Nature by Kenneth G. Henshall provides a biography of Tayama Katai, leader of Japan's naturalist movement. This book discusses Katai's prose fiction and perceptions of nature, and also corrects widely held but erroneous assumptions about Japanese naturalism.

About the author

Kenneth G. Henshall, FRHS, Ph.D. (1977) Sydney, is Professor of Japanese Studies at Canterbury University NZ. He has published widely on Japan-related topics ranging from script etymology to history to literature, and has translated Katai's memoirs and two of his novels.

Product details

• Authors: Kenneth G Henshall, Kenneth G. Henshall
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2012
• EAN: 9789004236295
• ISBN: 978-90-04-23629-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies