The poetics of renga in the selected works of Kawabata Yasunari

This thesis presents a study of Kawabata's poetics of renga, a method derived from the Japanese literary tradition. Chapter One explores the stylistic characteristics of renga sequences and their origin in the kotodama concept. In order to understand Kawabata's desire for a new narrati...

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Main Author: Riddington, Nozomi
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3777