Essays on Japan : between aesthetics and literature / / by Michael F. Marra.

• Author: Marra, Michael F.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (520 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects. Marra is one of the leading scholars in the field of Japanese aesthetics and hermeneutics and has published extensively on medieval and early modern Japanese literature, thought, and the arts. This work will present the reader critical insight into the fields of Japanese aesthetics, literary hermeneutics, and literature, with essays on such texts and figures as Kuki Shūzō, The Tale of Genji , Motoori Norinaga, and Heidegger.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / M. Marra -- Chapter One. Japanese Aesthetics In The World / M. Marra -- Chapter Two. The Creation Of The Vocabulary Of Aesthetics In Meiji Japan / M. Marra -- Chapter Three. Aesthetics: An Overview / M. Marra -- Chapter Four. Japanese Aesthetics: The Construction Of Meaning / M. Marra -- Chapter Five. Japan’s Missing Alternative: "Weak Thought" And The Hermeneutics Of Slimness / M. Marra -- Chapter Six. Coincidentia Oppositorium: The Greek Genealogies Of Japan / M. Marra -- Chapter Seven. Conrad Fiedler And The Aesthetics Of The Kyoto School / M. Marra -- Chapter Eight. On Japanese Things And Words: An Answer To Heidegger’s Question / M. Marra -- Chapter Nine. A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer: Kuki Shūzō’s Version / M. Marra -- Chapter Ten. Frameworks Of Meaning: Old Aesthetic Categories And The Present / M. Marra -- Chapter Eleven. Paradoxes Of Reclusion: Between Aesthetics And Anti-Aesthetics / M. Marra -- Chapter Twelve. The Dissolution Of Meaning: Towards An Aesthetics Of Non-Sense / M. Marra -- Chapter Thirteen. Hermeneutics Of Emplacement: On Places, Cuts, And Promises / M. Marra -- Chapter Fourteen. The Hermeneutical Challenge / M. Marra -- Chapter Fifteen. Place Of Poetry, Place In Poetry: On Rulers, Poets, And Gods / M. Marra -- Chapter Sixteen. Playing With Japanese Songs: Politics Or Pleasure? / M. Marra -- Chapter Seventeen. Continuity In Discontinuity: Thinking The Tale Of Genji With Japanese Thinkers / M. Marra -- Chapter Eighteen. The Aesthetics Of Tradition: Making The Past Present / Michael E Marra -- Chapter Nineteen. Nativist Hermeneutics: The Interpretative Strategies Of Motoori Norinaga And Fujitani Mitsue / M. Marra -- Chapter Twenty. An Interview With Michael F. Marra by Robert D. Wilson / M. Marra -- Chapter Twenty-One. Fields Of Contention: Philology (Bunkengaku) And The Philosophy Of Literature (Bungeigaku) / M. Marra -- Chapter Twenty-Two. The Poetry Of Aizu Yaichi / M. Marra -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Poetry and Poetics in Tension: Kuki Shūzō’s French and German Connections / M. Marra -- Chapter Twenty-Four. History And Comparability / M. Marra -- Bibliography Of Michael F. Marra’s Works / M. Marra -- Index / M. Marra.