Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, most recently Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World. Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, and has been hailed in the NYTBR as „the century“s leading expert on Japanese literature.“
16 Ebooks von Donald Keene
Donald Keene: Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion
Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural li …
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Donald Keene: Five Modern Japanese Novelists
The New Yorker has called Donald Keene ‚America’s preeminent scholar of Japanese literature.‘ Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a mem …
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Donald Keene: Frog in the Well
Frog in the Well is a vivid and revealing account of Watanabe Kazan, one of the most important intellectuals of the late Tokugawa period. From his impoverished upbringing to his tragic suicide in exi …
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Donald Keene: Chronicles of My Life
‚I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, m …
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Donald Keene: Emperor of Japan
When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country’s more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in t …
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Makoto Oda: The Breaking Jewel
Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, The Breaking Jewel offers a r …
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Donald Keene: So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which J …
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Donald Keene: The Winter Sun Shines In
Rather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country’s nat …
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Donald Keene: The First Modern Japanese
Many books in Japanese have been devoted to the poet and critic Ishikawa Takuboku (1886–1912). Although he died at the age of twenty-six and wrote many of his best-known poems in the space of a few y …
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Donald Keene: Anthology of Japanese Literature
This collection of Japanese literature presents carefully selected works for a Western audience.The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty-from earliest times to the …
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Modern Japanese Literature
A collection of plays, essays, poetry, and reportage compiled by “the 20th-century’s premier scholar of Japanese literature” (Slate). Modern Japanese Literature is Donald …
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Osamu Dazai: The Setting Sun
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition f …
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Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.
Mine has been a lif …
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Donald Keene: Anthology of Japanese Literature
A landmark collection of five periods of literature from the Land of the Rising Sun. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the …
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€3.73
Donald Keene: Los placeres de la literatura japonesa
«El aspecto más precioso de la vida es su incertidumbre». A partir de estas palabras de un monje budista del siglo XIV, Donald Keene, una de las mayores autoridades en Occidente sobre cultura …
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Osamu Dazai: Early Light (Storybook ND Series)
Early Light gathers three tales by Osamu Dazai, author of the wildly popular No Longer Human
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai’s genius: the title story relates his misa …
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