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(★)(英文版 日本文化論)(Donald Keene has long been acknowledged as one of the most significant contemporary commentators on Japanese culture. In this long-awaited reissue of his classic collection of essays, the reasons are immediately apparent.／ These essays are guideposts through ten centuries of cultural history. They chart the highlights of Japanese literary art for both the informed and the uninitiated. From the privileged world of Prince Genji to the present day, Professor Keene´s writings mark the course of the cultural milieu in which Japanese literature has flourished.／ Suggestion, simplicity, and impermanence --the basic aesthetic goals toward which the artists of Japan have traditionally aspired-- set the theme for this collection. The spontaneous lyricism of Japanese poetry exemplifies these ideas best, and Keene´s insights about the early poetry master, Teitoku, and the acknowledged genius of haiku, Basho, are remarkable for their critical perspective and sensitivity.／ With equal flair, Keene discusses the stifling of the artistic voice in the tyrannical years of World War II and the later emergence of Japan´s finest modern novelists --Tanizaki, Dazai, and Mishima.／ Whether exploring ´The Tale of the Genji´ or the emergence of the modern literary voice, Keene´s grand survey of the Japanese literary landscape continues to offer fascinating reading and insights today, as it has done for the last three decades.／ ◆Donald Keene, professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Columbia University, was born in New York City in 1922. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he taught from 1955 to 1992. His scholarly publications run to more than thirty books, ranging from a study of the ´Kojiki´ to discussions of contemporary Japanese literature, and have established him as one of the foremost authorities in the field. His works include ´Travelers of a Hundred Ages´, winner of the Yomiuri Literary Prize and the Shincho Grand Prize ; a four-volume history of Japanese literature (´Seeds in the Heart´, ´World Within Walls´, and ´Dawn to the West´, in 2 volumes) ; and ´Emperor of Japan : Meiji and His World´. During his long career, Keene has received numerous awards, among them the Order of the Rising Sun, the Kikuchi Kan Prize, the Japan Foundation Award, and the Asahi Prize.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●I.SOME JAPANESE LANDSCAPES／Japanese Aesthetics／Feminine Sensibility in the Heian Era／Individuality and Pattern in Japanese Literature／Realism and Unreality in Japanese Drama／ ●II.THE WORLD OF ´HAIKAI´ POETRY／Matsunaga Teitoku and the Beginning of ´Haikai´ Poetry／Bashoo´s Journey of 1684／Bashoo´s Journey to Sarashina／ ●III.THE CREATION OF MODERN JAPANESE POETRY／Modern Japanese Poetry／Shiki and Takuboku／ ●IV.THREE MODERN NOVELISTS／Tanizaki Junichiroo／Dazai Osamu／Mishima Yukio／ ●V.SOME JAPANESE ECCENTRICS／The Portrait of Ikkyuu／Fujimoto Kizan and ´The Great Mirror of Love´／Hanako／ ●VI.THE JAPANESE AND THE LANDSCAPES OF WAR／The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Japanese Culture／Japanese Writers and the Greater East Asia War／ ●VII.THE TRANSLATION OF JAPANESE CULTURE／On Translation／Arthur Waley／Confessions of a Specialist／ ●A SHORT READING LIST／) |
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