REFINING NATURE IN MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE by Nanyan Guo ( 9780739181027 )

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Title:

REFINING NATURE IN MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE
THE LIFE AND ART OF SHIGA NAOYA

By:

Nanyan Guo

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0739181025

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9780739181027

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Publisher:

LEXINGTON BOOKS

Pub. date:

23 January, 2014

Series:

AsiaWorld

Pages:

220

Description:

This book deepens our understanding of the dynamics between nature and culture in Japanese thought and feeling. The author provides a detailed study of Shiga Naoya's nature-inspired literature as an example of Japanese people's engagement with nature.

Synopsis:

This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga's nature-inspired writings and discusses how he created some vivid images of nature that became famous and still linger in Japanese people's minds. Shiga's remarkable sensitivity toward nature and the influences he received from earlier writers in Japan and abroad is examined. The complexity and depth of his understanding of nature is further revealed in his fascination with the supernatural, which also contributed to the creation of his literary style.

Illustrations:

7 black & white halftones, 1 maps, 1 tables

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