Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the the Modern Era, Vol. 4 FROM THE PUBLISHER
The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism.
SYNOPSIS
The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism.
FROM THE CRITICS
Los Angeles Times
Dawn to the West makes modern Japanese literature accessible to all.
New Republic
A literary history that will long remain the authoritative account. . . . Keene's description of hundreds of works, of dozens of authors, often given with full précis and sometimes with textual quotes, is an indispensable account of an entire literature.
New York Times Book Review
The publication of Dawn to the West . . . will do even more to establish modern Japanese literature as one of the major literatures of the world. . . . Here, for the first time, in two monumental volumes, are Mr. Keene's readable, yet thoroughly scholarly, essays on virtually all aspects of modern Japan's major creative writing. The first volume of Dawn to the West, which is devoted to fiction, contains complete studies of all the important Japanese writers since the Meiji Restoration in 1868, both those widely read in the West and others less well known.
Booknews
Originally published in 1984 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, reprinted here with a brief new preface by the author. His two volumes, written over a 15-year period, study the literature written in Japan since the beginning of the new period inaugurated by the Meiji Restoration of 1868. The first focuses on fiction, while this second volume discusses poetry in traditional forms (modern tanka and modern haiku); in new forms in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods; modern drama (kabuki, and shimpa and shingeki); and criticism in each period. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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