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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press
[2002]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wr347 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.