1 option
Before the nation : Kokugaku and the imagining of community in early modern Japan / Susan L. Burns.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burns, Susan L., 1958-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific.
- Asia-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kokugaku.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation."
- Contents:
- Late Tokugawa society and the crisis of community
- Before the Kojikiden : the divine age narrative in Tokugawa Japan
- Motoori Norinaga : discovering Japan
- Ueda Akinari : history and community
- Fujitani Mitsue : the poetics off community
- Tachibana Moribe : cosmology and community
- National literature, intellectual history, and the new Kokugaku
- Conclusion : imagined Japan(s).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613064554
- 9781283064552
- 1283064553
- 9780822384908
- 0822384906
- OCLC:
- 213455235
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.