Basho And The Dao
Subtitle: The Zhuangzi And The Transformation Of Haikai
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780824828455
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Zhuangzi.; Nanhua jing; Japanese poetry; Religion - World Religions; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Taoist influences; Taoism; Edo period, 1600-1868; Asian - Chinese; 1644-1694; Matsuo, Bashåo,; Zhuangzi
Description: "Basho and the Dao adds to an increasingly vibrant area of academic inquiry - the complex literary and cultural relations between Japan and China in the early modern era. Researchers and students of East Asian literature, philosophy, and cultural criticism will find this book a valuable contribution to cross-cultural literary studies and comparative aesthetics."--BOOK JACKET.