Download or read book The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame written by Edwin A. Cranston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame written by Edwin A. Cranston and published by Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three "essays" in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry--classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)--but also introduce the prose poems and free verse of a contemporary surrealist poet, Mizuno Ruriko, whose themes are childhood and the loss of innocence. "The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame" shows the translator of poetry experimenting with three different ways to present the results of his craft. "In the Dark of the Year" is an essay in sequencing. Cranston arranges translations of fifty love poems in the tanka form, ranging from the ancient chronicle Kojiki to the contemporary poet Tawara Machi, in an examination of desire, melancholy, and despair. The arrangement, inspired by the technique of association and progression, suggests an ongoing love story and limns the essence of the classical love tradition. "Young Akiko: The Literary Debut of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)" adopts a biographical approach. Richly documented with the astonishing tanka of the young poet who burst on the literary scene in 1900, this essay updates the author's article originally published in 1977 in Literature East and West. Finally, the longest essay, "The Dark at the Bottom of the Dish: Fishing for Myth in the Poetry of Mizuno Ruriko," shows Cranston "working outside his usual box," on the poems of a contemporary surrealist whose deepest themes are childhood and loss of innocence. Mizuno, hitherto not well known outside Japan, is a master of the prose poem and free verse. Cranston's essay shows the translator searching for the mysterious power that draws him to a poetry quite different from any on which he has previously worked.

Download or read book Rat Fire written by Theodore Hughes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Dark Is My Flower written by Leith Morton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of Yosano Akiko covers all the many and varied aspects of the experience of love—from early romantic encounters between the lover and beloved to the intimate pleasures of mutual infatuation and then true love. The journey outlined in Akiko’s verse also grapples with jealousy and unrequited passion, as Akiko’s poem-narrative treats the rivalry between herself and her best friend, the poet Yamakawa Tomiko, for the affection of the dashing young literary lion, Yosano Tekkan, who later became Akiko’s husband. Thus, How Dark Is My Flower: Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love tells a number of stories: a real-life romance unfolds in the poetry of these three poets examined in the book, as well as the story of the journey from romanticism to modernism undertaken by early 20th century Japanese poetry. How Dark Is My Flower emphasizes the astonishing innovations in diction and style, not to mention content, in Akiko’s work that transformed the tanka genre from a hidebound and conservative mode of verse to something much more daring and modern. This book pays particular attention to poetry, particularly the tanka genre, in the evolution of modernism in Japanese literature and breaks new ground in the study of modern Japanese literature by examining the invention and evolution of the concept of romantic love.

Download or read book Modern Japan Student Economy Edition written by Mikiso Hane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the essential facts of modern Japanese history. It covers a variety of important developments through the 1990s, giving special consideration to how traditional Japanese modes of thought and behavior have affected the recent developments.

Download or read book Another Stage written by Beng Choo Lim and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Biwa Singer written by Hugh de Ferranti and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Modern Japan written by Mikiso Hane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating political events with cultural, economic, and intellectual movements, Modern Japan provides a balanced and authoritative survey of modern Japanese history. A summary of Japan's early history, emphasizing institutions and systems that influenced Japanese society, provides a well-rounded introduction to this essential volume, which focuses on the Tokugawa period to the present. The fifth edition of Modern Japan is updated throughout to include the latest information on Japan's international relations, including secret diplomatic correspondence recently disclosed on WikiLeaks. This edition brings Japanese history up to date in the post 9/11 era, detailing current issues such as: the impact of the Gulf Wars on Japanese international relations, the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear accident, the recent tumultuous change of political leadership, and Japan's current economic and global status. An updated chronological chart, list of prime ministers, and bibliography are also included.

Download or read book Tosaka Jun written by Ken C. Kawashima and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tosaka Jun (1900–1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka.

Download or read book Years of Sadness written by Anyi Wang and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stateless Subjects written by Petrus Liu and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book On the Eve of the Uprising and Other Stories from Colonial Korea written by and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Of Birds Crying written by Minako Oba and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji written by Gaye Rowley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, which was devoted to work on the Japanese classics and, in particular, the great Heian period text The Tale of Genji. Akiko herself felt that Genji was the bedrock upon which her entire literary career was built, and her bibliography shows a steadily increasing amount of time devoted to projects related to the tale. This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko’s involvement with The Tale of Genji. The Tale of Genji provided Akiko with her conception of herself as a writer and inspired many of her most significant literary projects. She, in turn, refurbished the tale as a modern novel, pioneered some of the most promising avenues of modern academic research on Genji, and, to a great extent, gave the text the prominence it now enjoys as a translated classic. Through Akiko’s work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel. In delineating this important aspect of Akiko’s life and her bibliography, this study aims to show that facile descriptions of Akiko as a “poetess of passion” or “new woman” will no longer suffice.

Download or read book China on the Margins written by Sherman Cochran and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reading Wang Wenxing written by Shu-ning Sciban and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Residue of Dreams written by Tsung-I Jao and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: