Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka Volume 29

by Kyōka Izumi

Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939) had a predilection for the richly figurative and supernatural that seemed not only irrelevant to the concerns of modern life but an affront to the social and psychological realism that became the common currency of both literature and theater in modern Japan. Believing in beauty and truth and in language's mystical evocation of experience, Kyōka sought for a way to reinvest the world with a kind of magic that he felt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0939512017
• ISBN13: 9780939512010
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.6"