Burns, Susan L., 1958-

Before the nation Kokugaku and the imagining of community in early modern Japan / [electronic resource] : Susan L. Burns. - Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003. - x, 282 p. - Asia-Pacific . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. Asia-Pacific. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.

Late Tokugawa society and the crisis of community -- Before the Kojikiden : the divine age narrative in Tokugawa Japan -- Motoori Norinaga : discovering Japan -- Ueda Akinari : history and community -- Fujitani Mitsue : the poetics off community -- Tachibana Moribe : cosmology and community -- National literature, intellectual history, and the new Kokugaku -- Conclusion : imagined Japan(s).

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Kokugaku.


Electronic books.

B5243.K6 / B87 2003