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Danly, Robert Lyons was born on January 3, 1947 in Hinsdale, Illinois, United States. Son of Donald Robert and Mary (Lyons) Danly.
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Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolumed diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.
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“The Danly-Ichiyo book is one of those works where the author and subject seem so perfectly matched that the style of each suffuses and inspires the other: Danly as translator and commentator picks up and transforms Ichiyo’s blend of formal and colloquial language into flowing, strong, modern terms; she, in turn, spreads her wit, her melancholy, her sudden piercing insights to Danly.” ―Jonathan Spence, New Society Higuchi Ichiyo, Japan's first woman writer of stature in modern times, was born in 1872 and died at the age of twenty-four. In her brief life she wrote poems, essays, short stories and a great, multivolume diary. This book is made up of a critical biography, interlaced with extracts from the diary, and Robert Danly's translations of nine representative stories.
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Danly, Robert Lyons was born on January 3, 1947 in Hinsdale, Illinois, United States. Son of Donald Robert and Mary (Lyons) Danly.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1969; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1980.
Copywriter, Asia Advertising Agency, Tokyo, 1971-1974; assistant professor Japanese literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1979-1982; associate professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1982-1989; professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1989-1997; acting director program in comparative literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1985; director Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1993; director Japanese studies publications program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987-1996. Visiting professor U. London School Oriental and African Studies, 1994. Member judges' panel National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, 1984-1987.
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Member Modern Language Association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association American Center, American Literature Translators Association, American Comparative Literature Association, Association for Asian Studies, Yale Club New York City.