 | Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater Subjects: Sekkyo joruri; Buddhist literature Japanese -- Translations into English; Japanese drama -- Edo period 1600–1868 -- Translations into English; Puppet plays Japanese -- History and criticism; Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyō and ko-jōruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. R. Keller Kimbrough is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Virginia, Colby College, and the University of Colorado. He is the author of Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan . |
