Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki

Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature

Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki

352 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

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Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese t...

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