Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry 9780824862343
How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet who
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Table of contents :
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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