In Praise of History
Earl Miner, 1 March 1984
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Earl Miner
Earl Miner is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is co-author of the forthcoming Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature.
Pieces about Earl Miner in the LRB
Michi and Meiji
Nobuko Albery, 24 July 1986
I once received this stern admonition from an English editor: ‘If you intend to be a Japanese novelist whom we are translating into English, okay – I accept your manuscript as it is...
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