KEENE, Donald

KEENE, Donald. American, b. 1922. Genres: Area studies, Literary criticism and history, Translations. Career: Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor of Japanese, Columbia University, NYC. Guest Ed., Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1982-92. Lecturer, Cambridge University, 1948-53. Director, Japan Society, New York, 1979-82. Member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1987, and Japan Academy, 1989. Publications: The Battles of Coxinga, 1951; The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1952; Japanese Literature: An Introduction for Western Readers, 1953; Living Japan, 1957; Bunraku, the Puppet Theatre of Japan, 1965; No: The Classical Theatre of Japan, 1966; Landscapes and Portraits, 1971; Some Japanese Portraits, 1978; World within Walls, 1978; Meeting with Japan, 1978; Travels in Japan, 1981; Dawn to the West, 1984; The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988; Travelers of a Hundred Ages, 1989; Seeds in the Heart, 1993; On Familiar Terms, 1994; Modern Japanese Diaries, 1995; The Blue-Eyed Tarokaja, 1996; Emperor of Japan, 2002; Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion, 2003. EDITOR: Anthology of Japanese Literature, 1955; Modern Japanese Literature, 1956; Sources of Japanese Tradition, 1958; Twenty Plays of the No Theatre, 1970. TRANSLATOR: The Setting Sun, 1956; Five Modern No Plays, 1957; No Longer Human, 1958; Major Plays of Chikamatsu, 1961; The Old Woman, the Wife and the Archer, 1961; After the Banquet, 1965; Essays in Idleness, 1967; Madame de Sade, 1967; Friends, 1969; The Man Who Turned into a Stick, 1972; Three Plays by Kobo Abe, 1993; The Narrow Road of Oku, 1996; The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, 1998; The Breaking Jewel. Address: 407 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.