Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose by Linda H. Chance

Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose

Linda H. Chance

368 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

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What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjec...

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