The Pleasures of Japanese Literature
- The Pleasures of Japanese Literature
Infobox Book
name = The Pleasures of Japanese Literature
title_orig =
translator =
image_caption = The book's cover; a work from the "Album of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" by Sumiyoshi Gukei (1631-1705)
author = Donald Keene
cover_artist = Sumiyoshi Gukei; design by Jennifer Dossin
country = USA
language = English
series = Companions to Asian studies
subject = Japanese literature (poetry, theater, and fiction)
genre = Academic
publisher = Columbia University Press
release_date = 1988
media_type = Hardcover book
pages = 133 (including index)
isbn = ISBN 0-231-06737-2
preceded_by = ?
followed_by = ?
"The Pleasures of Japanese Literature" is a short nonfiction work by Donald Keene, which deals with Japanese aesthetics and literature; it is intended to be less academic and encyclopedic than his other works dealing with Japanese literature such as "Seeds in the Heart", but better as an introduction for students and laymen. This aim is unsurprising, as Keene notes in his introduction that "This book originated as five lectures, three delivered at the New York Public Library in the spring of 1986, the fourth at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the last at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1987.....The lectures - and this book - were intended for a general audience..." (from the first page of the Preface).
Chapters
Specifically, its five chapters deal with:
#Japanese Aesthetics - (wabi, mono no aware, etc)
#Japanese Poetry - (classical waka, some renga and haiku)
#The Uses of Japanese Poetry
#Japanese Fiction - ("Tsurezuregusa", Yoshida Kenkō, "Biography of Eight Dogs')
#Japanese Theater - (Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku)
External links
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1D6173FF931A25750C0A96F948260 Review] in "The New York Times"
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023106/0231067364.HTM Book summary] by publisher
*cite book|id=ISBN 0-231-06736-4|last=Keene|first=Donald|title=The Pleasures of Japanese Literatures
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