World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867 - Hardcover
A comprehensive critical and interpretive study of Japanese poetry, fiction, and drama of the Tokugawa period, providing detailed explications of all important works by the major authors of each genre
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"With masterly erudition and discernment, [Donald Keene] has written here what is certain to be the standard guide to the literature of Tokugawa Japan." -- "Kirkus Reviews"
"A work... that is not only exhaustive but always readable and often amusing." -- "New York Times Book Review"
"With masterly erudition and discernment, İDonald Keene¨ has written here what is certain to be the standard guide to the literature of Tokugawa Japan." -- "Kirkus Reviews"
"A work... that is not only exhaustive but always readable and often amusing." -- New York Times Book Review
"With masterly erudition and discernment, [Donald Keene] has written here what is certain to be the standard guide to the literature of Tokugawa Japan." -- Kirkus Reviews
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"A work... that is not only exhaustive but always readable and often amusing." -- "New York Times Book Review"
"With masterly erudition and discernment, İDonald Keene¨ has written here what is certain to be the standard guide to the literature of Tokugawa Japan." -- "Kirkus Reviews"
"A work... that is not only exhaustive but always readable and often amusing." -- New York Times Book Review
"With masterly erudition and discernment, [Donald Keene] has written here what is certain to be the standard guide to the literature of Tokugawa Japan." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A work... that is not only exhaustive but always readable and often amusing." -- "New York Times Book Review"
"With masterly erudition and discernment, [Donald Keene] has written here what is certain to be the standard guide to the literature of Tokugawa Japan." -- "Kirkus Reviews"
Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of a multivolume history of Japanese literature, of which World Within Walls is the second part, and more than thirty other books, including many translations from Japanese literature. He has received numerous honors in both the United States and Japan, and is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 0030136261
- ISBN 13 9780030136269
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