Western Writers in Japan

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Preface....Pages 3-4
Introduction....Pages 5-14
Lafcadio Hearn: the first great literary emissary from the West....Pages 15-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
William Plomer: East-West relationships....Pages 23-42
William Empson: ‘unresolved conflicts’?....Pages 43-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
G S Fraser: a Westerner’s analysis of haiku....Pages 59-72
James Kirkup and D J Enright: a humanitarian mission?....Pages 73-85
Anthony Thwaite: two decades a generation apart....Pages 86-94
Stephen Spender: a traveller through Japan....Pages 95-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Homosexuality and Japan....Pages 109-119
Cultural Differences....Pages 120-144
Natsume Soseki: Western individualism and the Japanese society....Pages 145-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Iris Murdoch: her interest in Zen Buddhism....Pages 151-155
Laurens Van der Post: the virtue of forgiveness....Pages 156-163
Epilogue....Pages 164-167
Back Matter....Pages 168-185