Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature

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This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures. Comprehensive thematic essays introduce each geographical section with historical overviews and surveys of persistent themes in the literature examined, including natio.;Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: General Introduction -- 1. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature -- 2. Modern Literature in East Asia: An Overview -- Part II: Japan -- Thematic Essays -- 3. Historical Overview -- 4. The Problem of the Modern Subject -- 5. Nation and Nationalism -- 6. Gender, Family, and Sexualities in Modern Literature -- 7. The Social Organization of Modern Japanese Literature -- Authors, Works, Schools -- 8. Translated and Political Novels of the Meiji Period -- 9. Tsubouchi Shōyō and Futabatei Shimei. Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Part I: General Introduction -- 1. The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature -- 2. Modern Literature in East Asia: An Overview -- Part II: Japan -- Thematic Essays -- 3. Historical Overview -- 4. The Problem of the Modern Subject -- 5. Nation and Nationalism -- 6. Gender, Family, and Sexualities in Modern Literature -- 7. The Social Organization of Modern Japanese Literature -- Authors, Works, Schools -- 8. Translated and Political Novels of the Meiji Period -- 9. Tsubouchi Sh&#x14D y&#x14D and Futabatei Shimei. 10. The Ken'yūsha, Ozaki Kōyō, and Yamada Bimyō -- 11. Meiji Women Writers -- 12. Mori Ōgai -- 13. Higuchi Ichiyō and Neoclassical Modernism -- 14. Shimazaki Tōson -- 15. Natsume Sōseki -- 16. Seitō and the Resurgence of Writing by Women -- 17. The Revival of Poetry in Traditional Forms -- 18. Poetry in Chinese in the Modern Period -- 19. Meiji-Period Theater -- 20. Uno Chiyo -- 21. Tanizaki Jun'ichirō -- 22. Shiga Naoya and the Shirakaba Group -- 23. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke -- 24. The Debate over Pure Literature -- 25. Naturalism and the Emergence of the Shishōsetsu (Personal Novel). 26. Kawabata Yasunari -- 27. Free Verse in the Taish&#x14D Era -- 28. Takamura K&#x14D tar&#x14D -- 29. Taish&#x14D and Prewar Sh&#x14D wa Theater -- 30. Hayashi Fumiko -- 31. Miyamoto Yuriko and Socialist Writers -- 32. Nagai Kaf&#x16B -- 33. Wartime Fiction -- 34. Atomic Fiction and Poetry -- 35. Occupation-Period Fiction -- 36. Dazai Osamu, Sakaguchi Ango, and the Burai School -- 37. Abe K&#x14D b&#x14D -- 38. &#x14C e Kenzabur&#x14D -- 39. Ibuse Masuji -- 40. End&#x14D Sh&#x16B saku -- 41. Enchi Fumiko -- 42. Mishima Yukio -- 43. The 1960s and 1970s Boom in Women's Writing -- 44. &#x14C ba Minako -- 45. Murakami Ry&#x16B -- 46. Murakami Haruki -- 47. Nakagami Kenji. 48. Kanai Mieko -- 49. Tsushima Y&#x16B ko -- 50. Shimada Masahiko and Shimizu Yoshinori -- 51. Yoshimoto Banana -- 52. Yamada Eimi -- 53. Postwar Poetry -- 54. Postwar Experimental Theater I: Angura -- 55. Postwar Experimental Theater II: But&#x14D and Performance Art -- 56. Modern Okinawan Literature -- Part III: China -- Thematic Essays -- 57. Historical Overview -- 58. Language and Literary Form -- 59. Literary Communities and the Production of Literature -- 60. Modern Chinese Literature As an Institution: Canon and Literary History -- Authors, Works, Schools. 61. The Late Qing Poetry Revolution: Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and Chinese Literary Modernity -- 62. The Uses of Fiction: Liang Qichao and His Contemporaries -- 63. Late Qing Fiction -- 64. Zhou Shoujuan's Love Stories and Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies Fiction -- 65. Form and Reform: New Poetry and the Crescent Moon Society -- 66. Reconsidering the Origins of Modern Chinese Women's Writing -- 67. Romantic Sentiment and the Problem of the Subject: Yu Dafu -- 68. The Madman That Was Ah Q: Tradition and Modernity in Lu Xun's Fiction -- 69. Feminism and Revolution: The Work and Life of Ding Ling.