Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century

(Book #1 in the A History of Japanese Literature Series)

by Donald Keene

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Donald Keene employs his prodigious wealth of knowledge, critical insight, and narrative aplomb to guide readers through the first nine hundred years of Japanese literature -- a period that not only defined the unique properties of Japanese prosody and prose but also produced some of its greatest works. Covering courtly fiction, Buddhist writings, war tales, diaries, poems, and more, Seeds in the Heart explores a vast and variegated treasury of writings...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0805019995

ISBN13:9780805019995

Release Date:January 1993

Publisher:Henry Holt & Company

Length:1265 Pages

Weight:3.00 lbs.

Dimensions:2.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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Anthologies Classics Criticism & Theory Fiction History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Medieval Movements & Periods

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Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century

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