The Kokinshu

Selected Poems
Übersetzer: Duthie, Torquil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that became celebrated as the cornerstone of the Japanese vernacular poetic tradition. This book offers an inviting and immersive selection of roughly one-third of the anthology in English translation.

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Produktdetails

• Translations from the Asian Classics
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 139mm x 216mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780231207638
• ISBN-10: 0231207638
• Artikelnr.: 65106056

Autorenporträt

Torquil Duthie is professor of Japanese literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Man'y¿sh¿ and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Translation Mana Preface Selected Poems from the Kokinwakash
Kana Preface Part II. Essays 1. Poetry Before the Heian Period 2. The Heian Court and Kana Writing 3. The Conception and Structure of the Kokinsh
4. Topics of Composition 5. Prosody and Rhetorical Conventions 6. The Kokinsh
Prefaces 7. The Kokinsh
Text and Its Commentarial Tradition 8. Translating the Kokinsh
Appendix: Poets in This Book Bibliography and Further Reading Index