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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Literature—Japan Summary
3,207 words, approx. 11 pages Japanese literature has flourished from the early eighth century to the present in a myriad of genres and styles reflecting the nation's cultural periods. The Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters), the earliest Japanese text, was completed in 712.... summary from source:
 Japanese literature Information
3,086 words, approx. 10 pages
 Japanese literature spans a period of almost two millennia. Early works were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. But Japanese literature developed into a separate style in its own... 
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 The Boston Globe Keys To The Mysteries Of Japanese Literature
12/07/1988: 572 words, approx. 2 pages THE PLEASURES OF JAPANESE LITERATURE, by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press. 133 pp. $19. Illustrated. A READER'S GUIDE TO JAPANESE LITERATURE, by J. Thomas Rimer. Kodansha. 208 pp. $14.95 (paperback). "No American child I know has ever been asked to write... summary from source:
The Independent - London Japanese wins Nobel prize for literature
10/14/1994: 375 words, approx. 1 pages STOCKHOLM - The Jap anese writer Kenzaburo Oe has won this year's Nobel Prize for literature with his bleak, controversial portrayal of human nature. Oe, aged 59, born in Ose on the island of Shikoku, was the third son of a samurai family.... summary from source:
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AP News Artists, entertainers who died in 2007
12/28/2007: 3,654 words, approx. 12 pagesWorld War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era.Vonnegut turned his ordeal as a POW during the 1945 allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany, into his 1969...
Literary Criticism
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 Robert E. Morrell
11,020 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Morrell elucidates the influence on Japanese poetry of Shintaishio, an anthology of western poetry published in Japanese translation in 1882.
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Donald Keene
9,586 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Keene charts the transition of Japanese poetry during the Meiji era from traditional tanka and haiku forms to shintaishi, or "new-style poems," and also surveys later innovations in Japanese poetic techniques and themes.
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Ko Won
9,019 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following excerpt, Ko traces the influence of the Dada movement on Japanese literature.
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