Embracing the firebird
Subtitle: Yosano Akiko and the birth of the female voice in modern Japanese poetry
By: Janine Beichman.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Yosano, Akiko, 1878-1942 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Japanese poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- Japan.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.313-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: A provincial childhood, 1878-1888; title: 1. Birth, exile, return; title: 2. Growing up in Sakai; title: Adolescence 1889-1900; title: 3. Saying no to reality; title: 4. The poet begins, love and poetry 1900-1901; title: 5. Tekkan enters; title: 6. The uses of poetry; title: 7. Autumn in the West; title: 8. The warm snows of Miyako; title: 9. Tokyo and Tangled hair; title: Interpreting Tangled hair; title: 10. The variety of Tangled hair; title: 11. The unity of Tangled hair; title: 12. The Originality of Tangled hair.