This book, which covers the period from preliterate times to the beginning of the tenth century, is the first of five proposed volumes that will give an account
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Karatani Kojin is one of Japan's leading critics. In his work as a theoretician, he has described Modernity as have few others; he has re-evaluated the literatu
Donald Keene, a noted authority in the field, offers a guide through the first 900 years of Japanese literature. This period not only defined the unique propert