Description |
xx, 312 pages ; 17 cm |
Contents |
Preface -- Meeting of East and West -- Renaissance and Augustan images of Japan ; American rediscovery of Japan -- New images and stereotypes of Japan -- Japan and the Victorian muse ; Tales of Japan ; Japan on the stage ; Popular image of Lafcadio Hearn -- From Japonisme to Impressionism : the change from nineteenth to twentieth-century artistic and poetic modes -- French interest in Japanese art ; Effect of Japan on French literature ; French discovery of Japanese literature ; Whistler's role in popularizing Japan ; Whistler's influence on English poetry ; Hearn's synthesis of science and impressionism in Japanese Buddhism -- Transition to the new poetry -- Ezra Pound -- Whistler and the Japanese ; Haiku and the form of super-position ; Haiku and the image ; From image to ideogram ; No drama and unity of image -- Absorption of Japan into twentieth-century poetry -- Imagists ; Contemporaries of the imagists : Aiken, Stevens, and others ; Japan at first-hand : new realism in the work of visiting poets -- Kabuki and No as dramatic criteria -- Early interest in the Japanese theatre ; Use of Kabuki by Western dramatists and critics ; Kabuki and the film ; Importance of No for Western drama and criticism -- Aristocratic form : Japan in the thought and writing of William Butler Yeats -- Place of Japan in Yeats's thought and development ; Effect of Japan upon Yeats's criticism and poetry ; No and Yeats's plays -- Summing-up -- Bibliographical essay and notes to the chapters -- Japanese literary forms ; Translations and other works of historical importance ; Earlier comparative studies ; Notes to the chapters. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Comparative literature -- English and Japanese.
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Comparative literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Japanese and English.
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Comparative literature -- American and Japanese.
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Comparative literature -- Japanese and American.
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