Article: Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations.

Amy Vladeck Heinrich, ed. New York. Columbia University Press. 1997. xi + 523 pages, ill. $45. ISBN 0-231-09696-8.

A compendium of twenty-nine articles by scholars of Japanese literature who have studied with the noted literary historian and translator Donald Keene, Currents in Japanese Culture is consciously structured in emulation of renga, described by the editor as "a poem with many links, each link (or chapter) related to the previous one by image, tone, subject - demonstrating the shared endeavor-but each opening new directions." The articles begin with a brilliant discourse by Eileen Kato exploring the association between James Joyce's Finnegans Wake and the ...

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