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- catalog abstract "With Seeds in the Heart, Donald Keene has completed his masterful, four-volume survey of Japanese literature from the earliest times to 1970--a major achievement of one of the world's most illustrious careers in literary criticism. Keene, the preeminent presenter of Japanese culture to the West, has long understood the key that literature holds to revealing a culture's sensibilities. This volume, like the first three, "will be hailed as definitive" (said Edwin O. Reischauer) as Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, depth of critical insight, and gift for narrative to guide us through one thousand years of a literary history that both defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose, and produced some of its greatest works: the robust and grand poetry of the Manyoshu; the subtle and sparse perfection of the thirty-one syllable waka poem; The Tale of the Genji, still regarded as one of the greatest novels in world literature; the richly distilled poetic texts of the fifteenth-century No dramas; and the vast canvases of the medieval war tales, such as The Tale of the Heike. Detailed textual examinations of these and many other works at once present new scholarship to the expert and allow the lay reader to understand and enjoy Keene's narrative without prior knowledge of Japanese history. Above all, the author shows us the relevance this great body of literature has for all centuries; as the tenth-century poet Tsurayuki said, "Japanese poetry has its seeds in the human heart."".
- catalog contributor b5215540.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The Kojiki -- Writings in Chinese or the Nara period -- The Man'yōshū -- Poetry and prose in Chinese of the early Heian period -- The transition from the Man'yōshū to the Kokinshū -- The Kokinshū -- Late Heian collections of Waka poetry -- Late Heian poetry and prose in Chinese -- Heian diaries -- The pillow book of Sei Shōnagon -- The beginnings of fiction -- The tale of Genji -- Courtly fiction after The tale of Genji -- Mirrors of history -- Tale literature -- Tales of warfare -- The age of the Shin Kokinshū -- Waka poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods -- Buddhist writings of the Kamakura period -- Courtly fiction of the Kamakura period -- Diaries of the Kamakura period -- Essays in idleness -- Medieval war tales -- Renga -- Diaries and other prose of the Muromachi period -- Nō and Kyōgen as literature -- Literature of the Five Mountains -- Muromachi fiction : otogi-zōshi -- The late sixteenth century.".
- catalog description "With Seeds in the Heart, Donald Keene has completed his masterful, four-volume survey of Japanese literature from the earliest times to 1970--a major achievement of one of the world's most illustrious careers in literary criticism. Keene, the preeminent presenter of Japanese culture to the West, has long understood the key that literature holds to revealing a culture's sensibilities. This volume, like the first three, "will be hailed as definitive" (said Edwin O. Reischauer) as Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, depth of critical insight, and gift for narrative to guide us through one thousand years of a literary history that both defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose, and produced some of its greatest works: the robust and grand poetry of the Manyoshu; the subtle and sparse perfection of the thirty-one syllable waka poem; The Tale of the Genji, still regarded as one of the greatest novels in world literature; the richly distilled poetic texts of the fifteenth-century No dramas; and the vast canvases of the medieval war tales, such as The Tale of the Heike. Detailed textual examinations of these and many other works at once present new scholarship to the expert and allow the lay reader to understand and enjoy Keene's narrative without prior knowledge of Japanese history. Above all, the author shows us the relevance this great body of literature has for all centuries; as the tenth-century poet Tsurayuki said, "Japanese poetry has its seeds in the human heart."".
- catalog extent "xiv, 1265 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0805019995 (acid-free paper) :".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Henry Holt & Co.,".
- catalog subject "895.6/09 20".
- catalog subject "Japanese literature To 1600 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PL726.115 .K44 1993".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Kojiki -- Writings in Chinese or the Nara period -- The Man'yōshū -- Poetry and prose in Chinese of the early Heian period -- The transition from the Man'yōshū to the Kokinshū -- The Kokinshū -- Late Heian collections of Waka poetry -- Late Heian poetry and prose in Chinese -- Heian diaries -- The pillow book of Sei Shōnagon -- The beginnings of fiction -- The tale of Genji -- Courtly fiction after The tale of Genji -- Mirrors of history -- Tale literature -- Tales of warfare -- The age of the Shin Kokinshū -- Waka poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods -- Buddhist writings of the Kamakura period -- Courtly fiction of the Kamakura period -- Diaries of the Kamakura period -- Essays in idleness -- Medieval war tales -- Renga -- Diaries and other prose of the Muromachi period -- Nō and Kyōgen as literature -- Literature of the Five Mountains -- Muromachi fiction : otogi-zōshi -- The late sixteenth century.".
- catalog title "Seeds in the heart : Japanese literature from earliest times to the late sixteenth century / Donald Keene.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".