Japanese Literature A Very Short Introduction [Audiobook] [#592062]

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English | ASIN: B0C5BNHMQF | 2023 | 3 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Alan Tansman
Narrator: Derek Shoales
With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, written works originating from Japan encompass a vast range of forms and genres. Since the eighth century, poetry and the non-philosophical lyric voice have occupied a central position in Japanese cultural life. The art of narrative would soon follow, blossoming in the eleventh century with one of the world's great literary masterpieces, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji. Japanese literature later developed other genres no less important than poetry and narrative, among them the diary, the free-flowing essay, drama, the picture book, and the literary treatise.