- History and criticism, Japanese literature, Japanese literature, history and criticism
With Seeds in the Heart, Donald Keene has completed his masterful, four-volume survey of Japanese literature from the earliest times to 1970--a major achievement of one of the world's most illustrious careers in literary criticism.
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Donald Keene
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 1265
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press, Henry Holt & Co., Henry Holt & Co (P)
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805043648
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