Browsing books in the library
Use the phrase Japanese Literature to search in UQ Library Search. Limit your results by content type, subject terms, publication date, and language using the options on the right side of the page.
Find books about Japanese literature in the Central Library at call numbers PL700 to PL899.
Tips on using eBooks
The Library provides access to a range of eBooks.
Introductory resources
The A to Z of modern Japanese literature and theater by Publication Date: 2010This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Japanese literature.
Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature by Publication Date: 2016The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today.
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature by Publication Date: 2015The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume.
Anthology of Japanese Literature by Publication Date: 2011This collection of Japanese literature presents carefully selected works for a Western audience. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth-century novels is included.
Specialised databases
Search these databases for more specific articles related to Japanese literature studies.
- MLA international bibliographyIndexes materials on modern language, literature, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to journals and series published worldwide, monographs, working papers and proceedings, and bibliographies.
- Humanities index retrospective : 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)Indexes publications in the areas of: art, archaeology and classical studies, and other areas of the humanities. Coverage 1907-1984.
- Arts and humanities citation indexA multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers a large number of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals.
- CiNii - Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, JapanCiNii Article Database is a Japanese scholarly journal index. Abstracts are available.