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How Dark Is My Flower emphasizes the astonishing innovations in diction and style, not to mention content, in Akiko’s work that transformed the tanka genre from a hidebound and conservative mode of verse to something much more daring and modern. This book pays particular attention to poetry, particularly the tanka genre, in the evolution of modernism in Japanese literature and breaks new ground in the study of modern Japanese literature by examining the invention and evolution of the concept of romantic love.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740988383505,"sku":"NGR9780472055753","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0472055755.jpg?v=1750976646"},{"product_id":"alien-within-book-leith-morton-9780824832926","title":"The Alien Within","description":"The Alien Within is the first book-length thematic study in English of the alien in modern Japanese literature and helps shed new light on a number of important authors. Leith Morton examines the Gothic, a form of writing with strong affinities to European Gothic and a motif in the fiction of several key modern Japanese writers, such as Arishima Takeo. Morton also discusses the translations of Tsubouchi Shoyo, Japan's most famous early translator of Shakespeare, and how this most alien and exotic author was absorbed into the Japanese literary and theatrical tradition. The new field of translation theory and how it relates to translating Shakespeare are also discussed. Morton devotes two chapters to the celebrated female poet Yosano Akiko, whose verse on childbirth and her unborn children broke taboos relating to the expression of the female body and sensibility. He also highlights the writing of contemporary Okinawan novelist Oshiro Tatsuhiro, whose work springs from what is for Japanese an exotic subtropical landscape and makes symbolic reference to the otherness at the heart of Japanese religiosity. Another significant but equally overlooked subject is the focus of the final chapter, which analyzes the travel writing of internationally best-selling author Murakami Haruki. Murakami's great corpus of work includes a one-volume study of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which Morton discusses in detail.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51451257454865,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51451258831121,"sku":"CIN0824832922VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0824832922.jpg?v=1751170118"},{"product_id":"avant-garde-japanese-poetry-and-poetics-book-leith-morton-9781041277293","title":"Avant-Garde Japanese Poetry and Poetics","description":"This book analyzes avant-garde contemporary Japanese poetry published in the monthly poetry journal Gendai shi techō (Contemporary Poetry Handbook).  Featuring analyses and English translations of original poetry and poetics by leading younger Japanese poets, as well as older, veteran poets whose work appears frequently in the journal, the book explores the impact of social media and Internet on the world of poetry as well as issues and concerns of 21st-century Japanese poets such as eco-criticism, love and relationships.  As the first scholarly monograph to be focused on the complicated and fascinating realm of 21st-century Japanese poetry, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese poetry and literature, as well as poetry in translation.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53143654662417,"sku":"NGR9781041277293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53698709061905,"sku":"NLS9781041277293","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781041277293.jpg?v=1778924746"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-leith-morton.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}