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Michael F. Marra
Titles published by MET Press:
A Poetic Guide to an Ancient Capital: Aizu Yaichi and the City of Nara
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Michael F. Marra is a professor of Japanese literature, aesthetics, and hermeneutics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the faculties of Osaka University of Foreign Studies, University of Tokyo, University of Kyoto, and University of Southern California. Among his publications are The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature (1991); Representations of Power: The Literary Politics of Medieval Japan (1993); Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader (1999); A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics (2001); Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation (2002); Kuki Shūzō: A Philosopher’s Poetry and Poetics (2004); The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey (2007); and Seasons and Landscapes in Japanese Poetry: An Introduction to Haiku and Waka (2008). Among his most popular lectures at UCLA is a course dealing with readings and interpretations of poetry by Western and Japanese philosophers. Professor Marra was chosen by the Governor of the Nara Prefecture as goodwill ambassador for the celebrations in 2010 of the 1300th anniversary of the foundation of Nara as capital of the ancient Yamato state (710-2010). Email: marra@humnet.ucla.edu
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