The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Abridged
Edited by J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel
Paper, 896 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15723-0
$40.00
/ £27.50
Abridged Edition
November, 2011
Cloth, 896 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15722-3
$120.00
/ £83.00
Read an excerpt from contemporary Japanese writer Hirano Keiichiro.
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About the Author
J. Thomas Rimer is emeritus professor of Japanese literature, theater, and art at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at the University of Maryland, and he served for several years as head of the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. He is the author, coauthor, editor, and translator of several works, including Traditional Japanese Arts and Culture: An Illustrated Sourcebook and A Reader’s Guide to Japanese Literature.
Van C. Gessel is professor of Japanese literature at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Three Modern Novelists: Sōseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata; coeditor of The Shōwa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories; and translator of six literary works by the Japanese Catholic novelist Endō Shūsaku, including The Samurai and Deep River.
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