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(★)(´Modern Japanese Literature´is Donald Keene´s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark work ´Anthology of Japanese Literature : From the Earliest Era to the Mid-Nineteenth Century´. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, the book includes concise introductions to the writers as well as an historical introduction by Professor Keene. Modern Japanese literature is the product of two great traditions : the native, which goes back 1300 years, and the Western, first introduced to Japan about 150 years ago. The combination of these very different traditions gave birth to a literature that stands as a unique product of the meeting of East and West. This volume is telling testimony to this historic meeting, and includes many works considered classics written from 1868 to the present day. Here in the stories, plays, and poetry of modern Japan is a mixture of the familiar and the strange that is fascinating in itself and an insightful guide to the thoughts and lives of Japanese today. The volume is sure proof that modern Japanese literature is an important part of the literary heritage of the world.／ ◆Donald Keene, one of the foremost Western authorities on Japanese literature, is widely regarded as America´s pre-eminent cultural ambassador to Japan. Presently University Professor Emeritus and Shinto Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, he has written and translated over fifty books. The winner of numerous literary awards and prizes, including the Order of the Rising Sun, Professor Keene was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best work of literary criticism in Japanese [in 1985 for ´Hyakudai no kakaku´]. In 1986, he was elected to the American Acedemy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1990 was elected as a foreign member to the Japan Academy.／ ▼CONTENTS／ ●Preface ●Introduction ●´KANAGAKI ROBUN´ : The Beefeater ●´HATTORI BUSHOO´ : The Western Peep Show ●´KAWATAKE MOKUAMI´ : The Thieves ●Modern Poetry in Chinese ●´TSUBOUCHI SHOOYOO´ : The Essence of the Novel ●´FUTABATEI SHIMEI´ : The Drifting Cloud ●´HIGUCHI ICHIYOO´ : Growing Up ●´KUNIKIDA DOPPO´ : Old Gen ●Modern Haiku : I ●´NATSUME SOOSEKI´ : Botchan ●´SHIMAZAKI TOOSON´ : The Broken Commandment ●´TAYAMA KATAI´ : One Soldier ●´NAGAI KAFUU´ : The River Sumida ●Modern Poetry : I ●Modern Waka ●´ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU´ : The Romaji Diary ●´MORI OOGAI´ : The Wild Goose ●´IZUMI KYOOKA´ : A Tale of Three Who Were Blind ●´NAKA KANSUKE´ : Sanctuary ●´SHIGA NAOYA´ : Han´s Crime ●´SHIGA NAOYA´ : At Kinosaki ●´KIKUCHI KAN´ : The Madman on the Roof ●´KUME MASAO´ : The Tiger ●´AKUTAGAWA RYUUNOSUKE´ : Kesa and Moritoo ●´AKUTAGAWA RYUUNOSUKE´ : Hell Screen ●´KOBAYASHI TAKIJI´ : The Cannery Boat ●´YOKOMITSU RIICHI´ : Time ●´HINO ASHIHEI´ : Earth and Soldiers ●´KAWABATA YASUNARI´ : The Mole ●Modern Poetry : II ●Modern Haiku : II ●´TANIZAKI JUNICHIROO´ : The Firefly Hunt ●´TANIZAKI JUNICHIROO´ : The Mother of Captain Shigemoto ●´DAZAI OSAMU´ : Villon´s Wife ●´HAYASHI FUMIKO´ : Tokyo ●´MISHIMA YUKIO´ : Omi) |
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