Research Catalog

Title

Kuki Shūzō : a philosopher's poetry and poetics / translated and edited by Michael F. Marra.

Author

Kuki, Shūzō, 1888-1941.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawaiì Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Marra, Michael F.

Description

x, 357 pages; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Philosopher's poetry and poetics

Subject

• Kuki, Shūzō, 1888-1941 > Translations into English

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-354) and index.

Contents

Worlds in tension : an essay on Kuki Shuzo's poetry and poetics -- Poetry -- Wind -- Recollections -- Seafood restaurant -- The gatekeeper's son -- An autumn day -- The negative dimension -- Contingency -- The dialectical method -- Pure duration -- The human dance -- Self-questioning -- The tango -- Yellow face -- Serenade -- Monte Carlo -- Ginkgo leaf -- Loneliness -- Pig -- Guest -- A walk -- The Russian song -- Heine's tomb -- My heart -- Vomiting -- Paris mindscapes -- Andantino -- Nocturne -- Variations -- Scherzo -- Serenade -- Winter in Kyoto -- Last poems -- Thoughts originating from herbs -- To Ms. D -- A solitary life -- Onogora and intercourse -- Konohana no Sakuyabime -- Poetry -- Journey -- One night -- Squirrel -- Bookbinder -- Bat -- The sleepy inland sea -- Heart -- Meeting bridge -- Monte Carlo -- The carnival of nice -- A wish -- Wind -- Farewell to Paris -- Grieving Mr. Iwashita Soichi -- Credo Quia Absurdum -- A stroll -- Renunciation -- Cointreau -- Luxor -- Fontainebleau -- The geometry of gray -- Arabesque -- Tango -- Mediterranean sunset -- Repentance -- Evening in the Alps -- Dialectic -- The ruins of Karnak -- Flower picking -- Three comma-shaped figures in a circle -- Destiny -- Essays on poetry -- The genealogy of feelings : a guide to poetry -- The metaphysics of literature -- Selected essays -- My family name -- Negishi -- Remembering Mr. Okakura Kakuzo -- Remembering Mr. Iwashita Soichi -- A recollection of Henri Bergson -- Tokyo and Kyoto -- Contingency and destiny -- Contingency and surprise -- A joke born from contingency -- Sound and smell : the sound of contingency and the smell of possibility -- A record of short songs -- My thoughts on loanwords -- Tradition and progressivism.

ISBN

0824827554 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003020639

OCLC

ocm53058998

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries