
The Distant Isle
Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. February 1997
Book
Hardback
472 pages
978-0-939512-72-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Distant Isle honors the late Robert H. Brower with a memorial collection of fifteen essays and translations on Japanese literature. The book coheres broadly around the question of how to read Japanese, its fifteen authors bringing a range of concerns to bear. Roughly two-thirds of the papers collected here are concerned with the languages and literatures of premodern Japan. The other third concern modern Japanese language and literature. Although Professor Brower rarely published outside the field of his own expertise in waka poetry, he inspired his students to a diversity of interests and critical approaches, as these articles demonstrate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Michigan
United States
Publishing group
The University of Michigan Press
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-939512-72-0 (9780939512720)
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Persons
Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Robert Borgen is Professor of History, Emeritus, at UC Davis. Thomas Hare is Professor of Comparative Literature and Princeton University.