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Author : Sanehide Kodama
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Poetry and Japanese Culture written by Sanehide Kodama and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Gould Axelrod
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813531640
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book The New Anthology of American Poetry written by Steven Gould Axelrod and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes over 600 poems by 65 american poets writing in the period between 1900 and 1950.
Author : Durnell, H. B.
Publisher : Tokyo : Hokuseido Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Japanese Cultural Influences on American Poetry and Drama written by Durnell, H. B. and published by Tokyo : Hokuseido Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hazel B. Durnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893462406
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Japanese Cultural Influences on American Poetry and Drama written by Hazel B. Durnell and published by . This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152817
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons written by Haruo Shirane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.
Author : Victoria Chang
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252071744
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Asian American Poetry written by Victoria Chang and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.
Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231067362
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (673 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Japanese Literature written by Donald Keene and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to the Western world. The author, editor, or translator of nearly three dozen books of criticism and works of literature, Keene now offers an enjoyable and beautifully written introduction to traditional Japanese culture for the general reader. The book acquaints the reader with Japanese aesthetics, poetry, fiction, and theater, and offers Keene's appreciations of these topics. Based on lectures given at the New York Public Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the University of California, Los Angeles, the essays -though written by a renowned scholar- presuppose no knowledge of Japanese culture. Keene's deep learning, in fact, enables him to construct an overview as delightful to read as it is informative. His insights often illuminate aspects of traditional Japanese culture that endure today. One of these is the appreciation of "perishability." this appreciation os seen in countless little bits of Japanese life: in temples made of wood instead of durable materials; in the preference for objects -such as pottery- that are worn, broken, or used rather than new; and in the national love of the delicate cherry blossom, which normally falls after a brief three days of flowering. Keene quotes the fourteenth-century Buddhist monk Kenko, who wrote that "the most precious thing about life is its uncertainty." Throughout the volume, Keene demonstrates that the rich artistic and social traditions of Japan can indeed be understood by readers from our culture. This book will enlighten anyone interested in Japanese literature and culture.
Author : Ronald Tanaka
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595417205
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Scenes from a Country Tea Room written by Ronald Tanaka and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Phillip Tanaka's Scenes from a Country Tea Room is an exploration of the Japanese tea ceremony as seen through the eyes of a Japanese-American high school student, Laura Toyoda. Her poems and drawings of various types of pottery often associated with the tea ceremony are an attempt to represent the basic principles of tea, e.g., sabi, wabi (which have no real English equivalents) and wa (harmony). However, in a manner typical of tea, they do so indirectly by allusion, parable and inference. In viewing the tea ceremony through Toyoda's eyes, Tanaka is examining the interface between traditional Japanese culture and some of the core assumptions of our modern global community. It addresses the question of whether or not the principles of the traditional arts have anything of value to teach us other than California zen, the Ninja Turtles and octopus sushi. Finally, Scenes from a Country Tea Room pays homage to the thousands of Japanese and Japanese-American teachers or sensei who, like Matsui Sensei of the poems, have taught and continue to teach traditional Japanese arts in the Japanese-American community since the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the United States over a hundred years ago.
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Author : Lan Dong
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Asian American Culture [2 volumes] written by Lan Dong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and popular culture, this two-volume work is an ideal resource for students and general readers that reveals the historical, regional, and ethnic diversity within specific traditions. An invaluable reference for school and public libraries as well as academic libraries at colleges and universities, this two-volume encyclopedia provides comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms that enables readers to understand the history, complexity, and contemporary practices in Asian American culture. The contributed entries address the diversity of a group comprising people with geographically discrete origins in the Far East, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, identifying the rich variations across the category of Asian American culture that are key to understanding specific cultural expressions while also pointing out some commonalities. Entries are organized alphabetically and cover topics in the arts; education and politics; family and community; gender and sexuality; history and immigration; holidays, festivals, and folk tradition; literature and culture; media, sports, and popular culture; and religion, belief, and spirituality. Entries also broadly cover Asian American origins and history, regional practices and traditions, contemporary culture, and art and other forms of shared expression. Accompanying sidebars throughout serve to highlight key individuals, major events, and significant artifacts and allow readers to better appreciate the Asian American experience.
Author : Jamie D. Barker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498592708
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Trauma in 20th Century Multicultural American Poetry written by Jamie D. Barker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that by using literary trauma theory in conjunction with a reader response approach, readers can gain a better understanding of how poetry can work towards building community and encouraging empowerment over oppression by establishing collectives of people who may share similar stories and experiences connected to trauma. Rather than demonstrating how the poetry may fail or trying to establish what traumatic events the speaker (or poet, in some studies) may have encountered and the significance thereof, this study focuses on how the reader may find community with the ideas represented within the poem. The poetry of various ethnicities are examined, including African American poets Amiri Baraka and Lucille Clifton, Native American poets Robin Coffee, Linda Hogan, and Peter Blue Cloud, as well as Japanese American poets Mitsuye Yamada, Keiho Soga, and Lawson Fusao Inada. Although many of these poets have had their poems examined in the past, none have been explored through this type of approach. Furthermore, very few studies have expanded upon the ideas of literary trauma theory by using reader response, and no writings have examined the idea of ambivalence in poetry as this study does.
Author : Amy Vladeck Heinrich
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231096966
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Currents in Japanese Culture written by Amy Vladeck Heinrich and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twenty-nine original essays focuses on how cultural and literary genres and norms have developed in response to historical and cross-cultural influences.
Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101664886
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Book of Haikus written by Jack Kerouac and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting a lesser-known aspect of one of America's most influential authors, this new collection displays Jack Kerouac's interest in and mastery of haiku. Experimenting with this compact poetic genre throughout his career, Kerouac often included haiku in novels, correspondence, notebooks, journals, sketchbooks, and recordings. In this collection, Kerouac scholar Regina Weinreich supplements an incomplete draft of a haiku manuscript found in Kerouac's archives with a generous selection of Kerouac's other haiku, from both published and unpublished sources. With more than 500 poems, this is a must-have volume for Kerouac enthusiasts everywhere.
Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317763211
Total Pages : 2479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 2479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Author : Kenneth Rexroth
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201810
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Poems from the Japanese written by Kenneth Rexroth and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1955 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Japanese poems accompanied by their English translations.
Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780585041544
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)
Download or read book The Columbia History of American Poetry written by Jay Parini and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-23 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- New York Times Book Review
Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313011311
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Asian American Poets written by Guiyou Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel. And despite the proliferation of a large number of poets of Asian descent in the 20th century, Asian American poetry remains a neglected area of study. Poetry as an elite genre has not reached the level of popularity of the novel or short story, partly due to the difficulties of reading and interpreting poetic texts. The lack of criticism on Asian American poetry speaks to the urgent need for scholarship in this area, since perhaps more than any other genre, poetry most forcefully captures the intense feelings and emotions that Asian Americans have experienced about themselves and their world. This reference book overviews the tremendous cultural contributions of Asian American poets. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent, most of whom have been active during the latter half of the 20th century. Each entry begins with a short biography, which sometimes includes information drawn from personal interviews. The entries then discuss the poet's major works and themes, including such concerns as family, racism, sexism, identity, language, and politics. A survey of the poet's critical reception follows. In many cases the existing criticism is scant, and the entries offer new readings of neglected works. The entries conclude with bibliographies of primary and secondary texts, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Hiroaki Sato
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611729580
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book A Bridge of Words written by Hiroaki Sato and published by Stone Bridge Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prolific, award-winning translator of classical and modern Japanese poetry Hiroaki Sato recorded his thoughts on American society in mainly two columns across 30-plus years, collected here for the first time. This anthology of over 60 of Sato’s commentaries reflect the writer’s wide-ranging erudition and his unsentimental views of both his native Japan and his adopted American homeland. Broadly he looks at the Pacific War and its aftermath and at war (and our love of it) in general, at the quirks and curiosities of the natural world exhibited by birds and other creatures, at friends and mentors who surprised and inspired, and finally at other writers and their works, many of them familiar—the Beats and John Ashbery, for example, and Mishima—but many others whose introduction is welcome. Sato is neither cheerleader nor angry expatriate. Remarkably clear-eyed and engaged with American culture, he is in the business of critical appraisal and translation, of taking words seriously, and of observing how well others write and speak to convey their own truths and ambitions.
