Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari KawabataRoutledge, 18.09.2019 - 248 Seiten This first full length, and long overdue, study of Kawabata, Japans first Nobel laureate for literature and the most widely known for his novels Snow Country (1960) and Sound of the Mountain (1970). |
Inhalt
An Ambiguous Redemption | 41 |
Experiment and Expansion | 68 |
Between Tradition and Modernity | 118 |
Elegies for A Dying Tradition | 140 |
Time and Antitime | 154 |
Narcissus in Winter | 192 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 236 |
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