World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867

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"The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature. World Within Walls spans the age in which Japanese literature began to reach a popular audience―as opposed to the elite aristocratic readers to whom it had previously been confined. Keene comprehensively treats each of the new, popular genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the witty, urbane prose of the newly ascendant merchant class." - Preface - Introduction Part One: Literature From 1600-1770 1. Haikai Poetry: The Beginnings Of Haikai No Renga (Comic Linked Verse) 2. Haikai Poetry: Matsunaga Teitoku And The Creation Of Haikai Poetry 3. Haikai Poetry: Danrin Haikai 4. Haikai Poetry: The Transition To Basho 5. Haikai Poetry: Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) 6. Haikai Poetry: Basho’S Disciples 7. Fiction: Kana Zoshi 8. Fiction: Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693) 9. Fiction Ukiyo Zoshi 10. Drama: The Beginnings Of Kabuki And Joruri 11. Drama: Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) 12. Drama: Joruri After Chikamatsu 13. Waka Poetry: Kokugaku And The Waka Part Two: Literature From 1770-1867 14. Haikai Poetry: Buson And The Haikai Revival 15. Haikai Poetry: Haikai Of The Late Tokugawa Period 16. Fiction: Ueda Akinari (1734-1809) 17. Fiction: Gesaku Fiction 18. Drama: Eighteenth-Century Kabuki 19. Drama: Nineteenth-Century Kabuki 20. Waka Poetry: Waka Of The Late Tokugawa Period 21. Waka Poetry: Comic Poetry 22. Poetry And Prose In Chinese - Appendix: Summaries Of Plays - Glossary Of Japanese Terms And Certain Japanese And Chinese Names - Index