The Japanese tradition in British and American literature /
| Основен автор: | Miner, Earl Roy. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1958.
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| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Japanese tradition in British and American literature. |
Съдържание:
- Preface
- Meeting of East and West
- Renaissance and Augustan images of Japan ; American rediscovery of Japan
- New images and stereotypes of Japan
- Japan and the Victorian muse ; Tales of Japan ; Japan on the stage ; Popular image of Lafcadio Hearn
- From Japonisme to Impressionism : the change from nineteenth to twentieth-century artistic and poetic modes
- French interest in Japanese art ; Effect of Japan on French literature ; French discovery of Japanese literature ; Whistler's role in popularizing Japan ; Whistler's influence on English poetry ; Hearn's synthesis of science and impressionism in Japanese Buddhism
- Transition to the new poetry
- Ezra Pound
- Whistler and the Japanese ; Haiku and the form of super-position ; Haiku and the image ; From image to ideogram ; No drama and unity of image
- Absorption of Japan into twentieth-century poetry
- Imagists ; Contemporaries of the imagists : Aiken, Stevens, and others ; Japan at first-hand : new realism in the work of visiting poets
- Kabuki and No as dramatic criteria
- Early interest in the Japanese theatre ; Use of Kabuki by Western dramatists and critics ; Kabuki and the film ; Importance of No for Western drama and criticism
- Aristocratic form : Japan in the thought and writing of William Butler Yeats
- Place of Japan in Yeats's thought and development ; Effect of Japan upon Yeats's criticism and poetry ; No and Yeats's plays
- Summing-up
- Bibliographical essay and notes to the chapters
- Japanese literary forms ; Translations and other works of historical importance ; Earlier comparative studies ; Notes to the chapters.