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The Pleasures of Japanese Literature
The book's cover; a work from the "Album of the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets" by Sumiyoshi Gukei (1631-1705)
Author
Donald Keene
Cover artist
Sumiyoshi Gukei; design by Jennifer Dossin
Country
United States
Language
English
Series
Companions to Asian studies
Subject
Japanese literature (poetry, theater, and fiction)
Genre
Academic
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
1988
The Pleasures of Japanese Literature is a short nonfiction work by Donald Keene, which deals with Japanese aesthetics and literature; it is intended to be less academic and encyclopedic than his other works dealing with Japanese literature such as Seeds in the Heart, but better as an introduction for students and laymen. This aim is unsurprising, as Keene notes in his introduction that "This book originated as five lectures, three delivered at the New York Public Library in the spring of 1986, the fourth at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1986, and the last at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1987.....The lectures - and this book - were intended for a general audience..." (from the first page of the Preface). Keene also states that he intended to "provide the Western reader - the man who enjoyed the great works of the Western literary heritage - with an introduction to some of the things which I have found most beautiful and remarkable in Japanese literature" Donald Keene.
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