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

abridged Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-231-14414-8
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 904 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shirane, Haruo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceHistorical Periods, Measurements, and Other Matters1. Early Modern Japan2. Ihara Saikaku and the Books of the Floating World3. The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Basho4. Chikamatsu Monsaemon and the Puppet Theater5. The Golden Age of Puppet Theater6. Dangibon and the Birth of Edo Popular Literature7. Comic and Satiric Poetry8. Literati Meditations9. Early Yomihon: History, Romance, and the Supernatural10. Sharebon: Books of Wit and Fashion11. Kibyoshi: Satiric and Didactic Picture Books12. Kokkeibon: Comic Fiction for Commoners13. Ninjobon: Sentimental Fiction14. Gokan: Extended Picture Books15. Ghosts and Nineteenth-Century Kabuki16. Late Yomihon: History and the Supernatural Revisited

Über Autor(innen)

Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University and author of The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji and Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory and the Poetry of Basho. With Columbia University Press, he has published Traditional Japanese Literature; Classical Japanese: A Grammar; Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary; and Envisioning The Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production.