Embracing the Firebird : : Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry /

Embracing the Firebird : : Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry / / Janine Beichman.

How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the Firebird is the first book-length study in English of the early life and work of Yosano Akiko (1879-1...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Beichman, Janine,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (356 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • A PROVINCIAL CHILDHOOD 1878-1888
  • ONE Birth, Exile, Return
  • TWO Growing Up in Sakai
  • ADOLESCENCE 1889-1900
  • THREE Saying No to Reality
  • FOUR The Poet Begins
  • LOVE AND POETRY 1900-1901
  • FIVE Tekkan Enters
  • SIX The Uses of Poetry
  • SEVEN Autumn in the West
  • EIGHT The Warm Snows of Miyako
  • NINE Tokyo and Tangled Hair
  • INTERPRETING TANGLED HAIR
  • TEN The Variety of Tangled Hair
  • ELEVEN The Shape of Tangled Hair
  • TWELVE The Originality of Tangled Hair
  • EPILOGUE: BIOGRAPHY AND THE POET'S BIRTH
  • APPENDIX JAPANESE TEXTS OF CITED POEMS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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