Full title:
World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Hardcover, 6.5×9.5″ (17×23.5 cm), 606 + xv pages.
Condition: In d.j. with three slight tears and slight creasing, text and binding mint condition, signed by the author.
Original price: $22.95; this copy: $15 + shipping. Click for ordering info.
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BfS: Donald Keene. World Within Walls—1600–1867.
Posted in Academic Books, Books about haikai, Books for Sale, History, Scholarly Books, tagged Donald Keene, haikai, History, renga, Tokugawa Era, World Within Walls on 19 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BfS: Donald Keene. Dawn to the West—Poetry, Drama, Criticism
Posted in Academic Books, Books for Sale, History, Seasons & Calendars, Translations, tagged criticism, Dawn to the West, Donald Keene, drama, poetry on 18 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Full title:
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era—Poetry, Drama, Criticism. (Note that there is another volume with the same title, only differing at the end, where “Fiction” replaces “Poetry, Drama, Criticism”; that other volume is over 1300 pages long, and is not for sale here.)
New York: Henry Holt, 1984. Paperback, 6×9.25″ (15.5×23.5 [...]
Gilbert, Richard. Poems of Consciousness
Posted in Academic Books, Books about haikai, Electronic media, Translations, tagged haiku, Kai Hasegawa, Kiyoko Uda, Poems of Consciousness, Richard Gilbert, Translations on 2 April 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Subtitle: Contemporary Japanese & English-Language Haiku in Cross-Cultural Perspective.
Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2008. More details coming later . . .
With thanks to the author and publisher.
I’m really pressed for time, just now, so I’ll offer here the blurb I wrote on this as it was in press:
In Poems of Consciousness, Richard Gilbert investigates Japanese [...]
