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The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga

A Hermeneutical Journey

by Michael F. Marra · Michael F. Marra (trans.)

Translations of Motoori Norinaga's writings on poetry and literature with an extended interpretive essay. Marra presents Norinaga as a hermeneutic thinker whose theory of mono no aware is tied to his reading of ancient texts.

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