The Pleasures of Japanese Literature
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 15, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780231067379
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Japanese; Literary Criticism; Asian - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / Asian; Aesthetics, Japanese; History; History and criticism; Japan; Japanese Literature; Theater; To 1868
First sentence: IT WOULD BE difficult to describe adequately in the course of a few pages the full range of Japanese aesthetics or even to suggest the main features of Japanese taste as it has evolved over the centuries.