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Informationen zum Autor Donald Keene Klappentext This is the first of a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature. Volume one is devoted to the study of fiction, and contains complete studies of all the important Japanese writers since the Meiji restoration in 1868, both those widely read in the West and other lesser known writers. Zusammenfassung This is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature. The Columbia paperback edition! with Donald Keene's new preface! includes an introduction! an appendix! glossary! index! and a selected list of translations into English. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the Columbia Edition Preface Introduction 1 The Coming of the Enlightenment 2 Writing in Chinese of the Meiji Era 3 The Age of Translation 4 The Meiji Political Novel 5 Tshubouchi Shoyo and Futabatei Shimei 6 Koyo and the Ken'yusha 7 Koda Rohan 8 Higuchi Ichiyo 9 Kitamura Tokoku and Romanticism 10 Izumi Kyoka 11 Naturalism 12 Natsume Soseki 13 Mori Ogai 14 Nagai Kafu 15 The Shirakaba School 16 The "I Novel" 17 Akutagawa Ryunosuke 18 Proletarian Literature of the 1920s 19 Modernism and Foreign Influences 20 Tanizaki Jun'ichiro 21 Kawabata Yasunari 22 Tenko Literature: The Writings of Ex-Communists 23 War Literature 24 Postwar Literature 25 Dazai Osamu and the Burai-ha 26 The Revival of Writing by Women 27 Mishima Yukio Appendix Glossary Selected List of Translations into English Index
About the author
Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University.
Hailed by Anatole Broyard in the New York Times Book Review as "the century's leading expert on Japanese literature, as well as its most indefatigable translator," Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of the multivolume history of Japanese literature
Dawn to the West and translator of numerous books, including
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play, and
Three Plays by Kobo Abe, all published by Columbia.
