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Righteous cause or tragic folly : changing views of war in modern Japanese poetry

Title
Righteous cause or tragic folly : changing views of war in modern Japanese poetry / Steve Rabson.
Author
Rabson, Steve, 1943-
Publication
Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998.

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Description
ix, 287 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 17
Uniform Title
Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 17.
Subject
  • Japanese poetry > 1868- > History and criticism
  • War poetry, Japanese > History and criticism
  • Poets, Japanese > 1868- > Philosophy
  • Japanese poetry > 1868- > Translations into English
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-277) and index.
Contents
Masaoka Shiki: troubled journey to the front -- Yosano Tekkan: the pen as sword -- Takeshima Hagoromo and Miyazaki Koshoshi: harbingers of protest -- Kinoshita Naoe: the poetry of pacifism -- Yosano Akiko: to give one's life or not (a question of which war) -- Shimazaki Tōson: internal conflicts -- The "democracy poets" and the Pacific War -- Takamura Kōtarō and Saitō Mokichi: war and repentance -- Conclusion: postwar reflections and the antiwar revival.
ISBN
0939512777 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96048385
OCLC
ocm36011583
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries