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Linda H. Chance - Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose - 9780804730013 - V9780804730013
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Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose

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Description for Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose Hardback. What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 28. .

What makes a work of literature readable? This book asks that question of one of the classics of Japanese literature, the Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness) by Kenko (1283-1352), a collection of brief, fragmentary reflections on a number of subjects. In Japanese literary history the work is classified as one of the first collections of zuihitsu, or informal essay. This first extended critical treatment of Tsurezuregusa goes back to its author and his time to rebuild the discursive world of the early fourteenth century and to examine such matters as whether genre labels assist reading or obscure significant comparisons and contexts.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804730013
SKU
V9780804730013
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Ref
99-50

About Linda H. Chance
Linda H. Chance is Assistant Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature and Japanese Language at the University of Pennsylvania.

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