| JAPANESE
POETRY AND FICTION |
A MASS OF UNDIFFERENTIATED SIGNIFICANT LANGUAGE: MYTH, HISTORY,LOCAL LEGEND, SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH.
THE POEM AS A PURELY LITERARY WORK. IDENTIFIABLE POETIC VOICES
CREATING FICTION BY WRITING IN GENDER DISGUISE, AND BY WRITING SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY.
THE COMPOSITE FICTIONAL HERO. BEGINNINGS OF THE SHORT STORY.
PRIMACY OF POETRY AS THE FOUNDATION OF GENRE.
UNQUESTIONED IRONY AS HIGH ART. JAPAN'S VIBRANT CLASSICAL MASTERPIECE.
THE RANDOM ESSAYISTIC APPROACH TO FICTIONAL EFFECT.
(PART ONE OF TERM DIARY DUE. WORKS TO BE INCLUDED: KOJIKI, MANYOSHU,
TOSA NIKKI,TAKETORI M., ISE M., KOKINSHU, GENJI Monogatari)
CRITICAL IDEAS AND AN EMERGING SENSE OF AESTHETICS.
BALLAD SINGING AND THE BEGINNINGS OF DRAMA
CHANGES FROM THE DOMINANCE OF DECLARATION TO THE REFINEMENT OF REFLECTION IN POETRY.