The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower

by Robert Borgen, Thomas Hare, Sharalyn Orbaugh

Overview

The Distant Isle honors the late Robert H. Brower with a memorial collection of fifteen essays and translations on Japanese literature. The book coheres broadly around the question of how to read Japanese, its fifteen authors bringing a range of concerns to bear. Roughly two-thirds of the papers collected here are concerned with the languages and literatures of premodern Japan. The other third concern modern Japanese language and literature. Although Professor Brower rarely published outside the field of his own expertise in waka poetry, he inspired his students to a diversity of interests and critical approaches, as these articles demonstrate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780939512720
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Publication date:	02/01/1997
Series:	Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies , #15
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Robert Borgen is Professor of History, Emeritus, at UC Davis.
Thomas Hare is Professor of Comparative Literature and Princeton University.