The Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds (2 Vols) - A Translation and Commentary

This complete translation and commentary of The Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds provides a window onto one of the key texts for understanding C12th Japanese poetry, poetics and critical practice for the first time.

About the author

Thomas E. McAuley, Ph.D, (1995), University of Sheffield, is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies. He has published on premodern Japanese linguistics, literature and translation. Over 5,000 of his translations of Japanese waka are available at www.wakapoetry.net.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas E McAuley, Thomas E. McAuley
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004411289
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41128-9
• No. of pages: 1308
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 243 mm x 85 mm
• Weight: 2265 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies