Inventing the classics
Subtitle: modernity, national identity, and Japanese literature
By: edited by Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki.
Contributors: Shirane, Haruo, 1951-; Suzuki, Tomi, 1951-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
Subjects: Japanese literature -- History and criticism; Nationalism and literature -- Japan; Ideology and literature; Nationalism and education -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: issues in canon formation -- Haruo Shirane -- Pt. 1.; title: Nation building and national literature.; title: Manʾyōshū: the invention of a national poetry anthology -- Shinada Yoshikazu; title: Constructing imperial mysthology: Kojiki and Nihon shoki -- Kōnoshi Takamitsu -- Pt. 2.; title: Gender, genre, and cultural identity.; title: Gender and genre: modern literary histories and women's diary literature -- Tomi Suzuki; title: Modern constructions of Tales of Ise: gender and courtliness -- Joshua S. Mostow; title: Zuihitsu and gender: Tsurezuregusa and The pillow book -- Linda H. Chance -- Pt. 3.; title: History to literature, performance to text.; title: Nation and epic: The tale of the Heike as modern classic -- David T. Bialock; title: Chikamatsu and dramatic literature in the Meiji period -- William Lee -- Pt. 4.; title: Language, authority, and the curriculum.; title: Kangaku: writing and institutional authority -- Kurozumi Makoto; title: Curriculum and competing canons-- Haruo Shirane.