Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century

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Twenty-five years of research inform the fourth and final volume of an analysis of Japanese literature that uncovers the sensibility of an entire culture, revealing the history of poetic forms, the "I" novel, travel writing, women writers, and more. Preface Introduction Early and HeIan Literature 1. The Kojiki 2. writings in Chinese or the Nara Period 3. The Manydshu 4. Poetry and Prose in Chinese of the Early Heian Period 5. The Transition from the Manydshu to the Kokinshu 6. The Kokinshu 7. Late Heian Collections of waka Poetry 8. Late Heian Poetry and Prose in Chinese 9. Heian Diaries 10. The Pillow Bool{ of Sei Shonagon 11. The Beginnings of Fiction 12. The Tale of Genji 13. Courtly Fiction After The Tale of Genji 14. Mirrors of History 15. Tale Literature The MIDDLE Ages Introduction 16. Tales of Warfare 17. The Age of the Shin Kokinshu 18. Waka Poetry of the Kamakura and Muromachi Periods 19. Buddhist Writings of the Kamakura Period 20. Courtly Fiction of the Kamakura Period 21. Diaries of the Kamakura Period 22. Essays in Idleness 23. Medieval War Tales 24. Renga 25. Diaries and Other Prose of the Muromachi Period 26. N0 and Kyogen as Literature 27. Literature of the Five Mountains 28. Muromachi Fiction: Otogi-Zoshi 29. The Late Sixteenth Century Glossary Selected List of Translations into English Index