Research Catalog

Title

Inventing the classics : modernity, national identity, and Japanese literature / edited by Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001], c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shirane, Haruo, 1951-
• Suzuki, Tomi, 1951-

Description

xiii, 333 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Japanese literature > History and criticism
• Nationalism and literature > Japan
• Ideology and literature
• Nationalism and education > Japan

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.

Contents

Introduction: issues in canon formation / Haruo Shirane -- Pt. 1. Nation building and national literature. Manʼyōshū: the invention of a national poetry anthology / Shinada Yoshikazu ; Constructing imperial mythology: Kojiki and Nihon shoki / Kōnoshi Takamitsu -- Pt. 2. Gender, genre, and cultural identity. Gender and genre: modern literary histories and women's diary literature / Tomi Suzuki ; Modern constructions of Tales of Ise: gender and courtliness / Joshua S. Mostow ; Zuihitsu and gender: Tsurezuregusa and The pillow book / Linda H. Chance -- Pt. 3. History to literature, performance to text. Nation and epic: The tale of the Heike as modern classic / David T. Bialock ; Chikamatsu and dramatic literature in the Meiji period / William Lee -- Pt. 4. Language, authority, and the curriculum. Kangaku: writing and institutional authority / Kurozumi Makoto ; Curriculum and competing canons / Haruo Shirane.

Call Number

*OSK 01-7606

ISBN

• 0804739900 (alk. paper)
• 0804741050 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

00058337

OCLC

44876899

Title

Inventing the classics : modernity, national identity, and Japanese literature / edited by Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki.

Imprint

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001], c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index.

Added Author

Shirane, Haruo, 1951-

Suzuki, Tomi, 1951-

Research Call Number

*OSK 01-7606