Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry by Steve Rabson

Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry

Steve Rabson

288 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

history poetry sociology informative reflective medium-paced

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The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considered a taboo in postwar literary circles, is explored here in historical and cultural context. Steve Rabson presents translations and explications of works b...

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