Seeds in the heart : Japanese literature from earliest times to the late sixteenth century /

Seeds in the heart : Japanese literature from earliest times to the late sixteenth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keene, Donald
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Henry Holt & Co., 1993.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Japanese literature > To 1600 > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The Kojiki
  • Writings in Chinese or the Nara period
  • The Man'yōshū
  • Poetry and prose in Chinese of the early Heian period
  • The transition from the Man'yōshū to the Kokinshū
  • The Kokinshū
  • Late Heian collections of Waka poetry
  • Late Heian poetry and prose in Chinese
  • Heian diaries
  • The pillow book of Sei Shōnagon
  • The beginnings of fiction
  • The tale of Genji
  • Courtly fiction after The tale of Genji
  • Mirrors of history
  • Tale literature
  • Tales of warfare
  • The age of the Shin Kokinshū
  • Waka poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi periods
  • Buddhist writings of the Kamakura period
  • Courtly fiction of the Kamakura period
  • Diaries of the Kamakura period
  • Essays in idleness
  • Medieval war tales
  • Renga
  • Diaries and other prose of the Muromachi period
  • Nō and Kyōgen as literature
  • Literature of the Five Mountains
  • Muromachi fiction : otogi-zōshi
  • The late sixteenth century.