Embracing the firebird : Yosano Akiko and the birth of the female voice in modern Japanese poetry /

How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1...

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Bibliografiske detaljer
Hovedforfatter: Beichman, Janine (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press [2002]
Serier:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online adgang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wr347
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • A provincial childhood, 1878-1888
  • 1. Birth, exile, return
  • 2. Growing up in Sakai
  • Adolescence 1889-1900
  • 3. Saying no to reality
  • 4. The poet begins, love and poetry 1900-1901
  • 5. Tekkan enters
  • 6. The uses of poetry
  • 7. Autumn in the West
  • 8. The warm snows of Miyako
  • 9. Tokyo and Tangled hair
  • Interpreting Tangled hair
  • 10. The variety of Tangled hair
  • 11. The unity of Tangled hair
  • 12. The Originality of Tangled hair.