Earl Roy Miner

The poetry written by the Japanese imperial court between A.D. 550 and 1350 is regarded as one of the great literatures of the world. This volume introduces readers to that literature, offering at once a condensation, a reorganization, and an extension (to A.D. 1500) of "Japanese Court Poetry" (1901). (Poetry)

An Introduction to Japanese Court Poetry

Japanese Poetic Diaries

Amiẏa Deba

Literature begins. . . in lexically meaningless sounds and comes into being as lyric. . . The primacy of lyric in the emergence of literature confirms its role as the originative or foundation genre. . . [this] explains why that genre is especially important to consideration of literary rupture, endurance and renovation Earl Miner. With this bold bid for the primacy of lyric, Miner inaugurates an unusual volume which traverses the globe in its study of this vital cultural form. Lyric sustains by renewal. Some renewal comes from within, when a culture surges ahead, some again when a culture clashes with another culture. This book narrates both. The impulse for this volume comes from a telling insight that in issues of what has come to be known as Orientalism, the truly important subject is not the guilt of imperialists and their counterparts but the literatures ruptured. . . restriction of attention to guilty imperialism, eurocentricism and Orientalism still makes the west the subject. . . It is time to attend to other writers, other language, other canons and other conceptions of literature. . . we need to relocate the centre of interest to the scene of offence and to know the pre-colonial literatures ruptured by European incursion. Distinctive for its variety of approach, this volume features a truly international and multicultural authorship, and encompasses an extraordinary range of lyric conception and practise Chinese, Greek, Indian, Japanese and Korean. Earl Miner is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University and a past president of the International Comparative Literature Association. Founder chairman of the Committee on Intercultural Studies, he has taught, amongst other places, at Williams College, and UCLA. He has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government for his promotion of Japanese culture. Amiya Dev was Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University and vice-chancellor of Vidyasagar University. He is vice-president of the International Comparative Literature Association, and has played a key role in developing the principal texts of Comparative Literature in India.

Renovation in Lyric Conception and Practice

The Renewal of Song

"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.

An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature

Comparative Poetics

Robert E. Morrell

弘子·小田桐

Looks at the history of Japanese literature, identifies major authors and their works, and discusses literary terms, theater, and criticism

The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature

Dryden and the Issue of Human Progress

Hiroko Odagiri

The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.

William Moeck

Steven Edward Jablonski

Prof Earl Miner

The Commentary, the first full version on Paradise Lost since the Richardsons' in 1734, combines numerous resources with features used for the first time. It includes the best commentary from Annotations like Patrick Hume's (1695), to the variorum editions of Newton (1749) and Todd (1801-42), and the modern professional editions culminating in Alastair Fowler's (1968). Other elements include an essay on the early pre-annotative criticism from 1668, including Marvell, Dryden, Dennis, and others; copious use of the OED; numerous cross-references to Milton's other works and passages in Paradise Lost; fourteen excurses and other contributions by the present editors. This Commentary is itself a research library for Paradise Lost. It uniquely presents biblical, classical, and vernacular citations: the ultimate rather than a more recent source is cited, so dating the comment; every cited passage is quoted, and every question is in English. Only a text of the poem is required. Earl Miner is Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, William Moeck teaches English at Nassau Community College. Steven Jablonski is a public librari

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