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Japanese aesthetics and culture : a reader

Author: Nancy G Hume
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
Series: SUNY series in Asian studies development.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
This anthology is intended to supplement courses in which Japanese aesthetics and culture are taught. The essays assume little background knowledge; they do represent seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetic criticism, and are well known to scholars for their clarity and straightforward exposition, making them especially useful to the Westerner who does not speak Japanese. Some of the essays provide a  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nancy G Hume
ISBN: 0791423999 9780791423998 0791424006 9780791424001
OCLC Number: 31079561
Description: xx, 378 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Japanese literature : four polarities / J. Thomas Rimer --
Japanese aesthetics / Donald Keene --
The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, I, II, III / Wm. Theodore De Bary --
Ways of Japanese thinking / Graham Parkes --
Feminine sensibility in the Heian era / Donald Keene --
"Approach to Haiku" and "Basic principles" / Kenneth Yasuda --
Bashō on the art of the Haiku : impersonality in poetry / Makoto Ueda --
Zeami and the art of the nō drama : imitation, yūgen, and sublimity / Makoto Ueda --
The social environment of Tokugawa Kabuki / Donald H. Shively --
The wabi aesthetic through the ages / Haga Kōshirō --
Bushidō : mode or ethic? / Roger T. Ames --
Culture in the present age / H. Paul Varley.
Series Title: SUNY series in Asian studies development.
Responsibility: edited by Nancy G. Hume.

Abstract:

This anthology is intended to supplement courses in which Japanese aesthetics and culture are taught. The essays assume little background knowledge; they do represent seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetic criticism, and are well known to scholars for their clarity and straightforward exposition, making them especially useful to the Westerner who does not speak Japanese. Some of the essays provide a general introduction to the basic theories of Japanese aesthetics, others deal with poetry and theater, and a third group discusses cultural phenomena directly related to classic Japanese literature. The text includes notes on historical periods and language, a glossary of the most significant literary and aesthetic vocabulary, and an extensive, annotated bibliography that guides the reader to primary materials, critical studies, general histories, anthologies, encyclopedias, and lists of films and audio-visual materials.

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