Modernity in East-West Literary Criticism

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Modernity in East-West Literary Criticism is written by Yoshinobu Hakutani and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838639070 (ISBN 10) and 9780838639078 (ISBN 13).

This collection of eleven essays concerns the movement of modernity in East-West literary criicism. Most of the contributions address particular cross-cultural relationships such as W.B. Yeat's interest in the 'noh' play, Ezra Pound's imagism, and the influence of Zen aesthetics on Western poetry. The Western writers discussed range from Americans, including Emerson, Thoreau, Faulkner, Wright, and Snyder, to Europeans, such as Marcel Proust. The Eastern writers include Basho, Tanizaki, Lao Tzu, Wan Wei, Tagore, and Yone Noguchi.