Title Japanese and Western literature a comparative study

Published Rutland, Vt., C.E. Tuttle Co. [1970]

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Description 1 online resource (394 pages) Contents Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Preface; Introduction: On the Universal Nature of Literature; PART ONE. A WESTERN INTERPRETATION OF JAPANESE LITERARY CULTURE; I. CLASSIC POETRY; Introduction to Classic Literature; Form and Content in Japanese Poetry; The Classic Anthologies; The Concept of Poetry; Limitations; Basho: His Symbolic Poetry Confronted with Western Symbolism; The Concept of Nature; The Concept of Love; Significance of Japanese Lyricism in World Poetry; II. THE CLASSIC NOVEL; The Beginning of the Novel in Japan; The Tale of Genji The Concept of the Novel in The Tale of Genji and the Western Concept of the NovelThe Concept of Life; The Concept of Love: a Cult of Beauty; The Concept of Time; Two Great Symbols: Genji and Don Juan; III. THE DIARY; The Heian Diaries; The Diary of Izumi Shikibu; The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu; The Diary of Sei Shonagon; The Notebooks of Kamo no Chomei and Kenko Yoshida; The Poetic Diaries of Basho and Issa; Confrontation with Western Diaries; IV . THE PICARESQUE NOVEL; A Novel of the People; Saikaku Ihara; Kiseki Ejima; Ikku Jippensha; The Picaresque Novel and Ukiyo-e Painting The Picaresque Novel in Japan and in the WestV. THE FANTASTIC STORY; Characteristics of the Oriental and Western Fantastic Story; Akinari Ueda; Bakin Takizawa; The Fantastic Story, Ghost Story, and Murder Story; The Mechanical Void of the Murder Story; The Murder Story and the Nouveau Roman; VI. DRAMA; Noh, Kabuki, and Puppet Theatre; Drama and Scenic Art; Monzaemon Chikamatsu; The Puppet Theatre; The Weight of Tradition; The Paradox of the Japanese Theatre Today; VII. THE GREATEST REVOLUTION IN JAPANESE HISTORY: CONTACT WITH THE WEST; First Contact with the West; Second Contact with the West Enthusiasm for Western CultureVIII. WRITERS AT THE TIME OF THE FIRST LITERARY ENCOUNTER WITH THE WEST; Western Influence in the Meiji Era; Ogai Mori; Soseki Natsume; Ryunosuke Akutagawa; IX. WESTERN INFLUENCE ON CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE WRITERS; A Challenge from the West; Two Main Trends of Thought: Marxism and Christianity; The New Poets: Inspiration from the West; Akiko Yosano; Takuboku Ishikawa; Bokusui Wakayama; The Novelists; Kafu Nagai; Naoya Shiga; Junichiro Tanizaki; Kan Kikuchi; Jiro Osaragi; Kojiro Serizawa; Yoichi Nakagawa; Masuji Ibuse; Yasunari Kawabata; Michio Takeyama; Tatsuo Hori Fumio NiwaFumiko Hayashi; Yasushi Inoue; Shohei Ooka; Osamu Dazai; Taijun Takeda; X. THE WRITERS OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION; New Social Conditions and Intellectual Trends in Japan; The Modern Poets; Mitsuhiro Sawamura; Ryuichi Tamura; Kio Kuroda; Minoru Yoshioka; Hiroshi Sekine; Ryusei Hasegawa; Taro Yamamoto; Koichi Ijima; Shuntaro Tanikawa; Hiroshi Iwata; The Modem Novelists; Shusaku Endo; Kobo Abe; Yukio Mishima; Yasuko Harada; Shintaro Ishihara; Kenzaburo Oe; XI. THE UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF MODERN JAPANESE DRAMA; The Poverty of Modern Scenic Art and Drama; Modern Author-Playwrights Summary Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese poet Torga and the haiku master Issa, and between the picaresque novel in Japan and in the West. Contrastive studies are also made into such concepts as time, nature, love, and tragedy Analysis Japanese literature Influence of Western literature Critical studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Japanese literature -- History and criticism Comparative literature -- Japanese and European Comparative literature -- European and Japanese Comparative literature -- Japanese and American Comparative literature -- American and Japanese LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. Comparative literature -- European and Japanese Comparative literature -- Japanese and European Japanese literature Literatur Westliche Welt Japanisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 73123899 ISBN 9781462912131 1462912133

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