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Author | : Dennis Charles Washburn |
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Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Japan |
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Author | : Dennis C. Washburn |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300105254 |
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This book looks at modernity in Japanese literary culture as a continuing historical dynamic rather than as merely the product of the intense Westernization of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author links the modern in Japan to a sense of cultural discontinuity that may be located in fictional narratives before the encounter of Japan with the West, and he argues that modernity in Meiji Japan can be understood in terms of cultural conflict--not only Japan versus the West, but also Japan's present versus its past. Washburn compares readings from Meiji literature with readings from pre-Meiji and post-Meiji works. He begins with Genji monogatari (early eleventh century) and the Hojoki (1212), continues with stories by Saikaku (late seventeenth century), and ends with a consideration of selected texts from the Meiji period (1868-1912) through the end of the Second World War. Washburn focuses on common thematic elements that recur over time and on such formal considerations as voice and perspective that evolve historically to give expression to the sense of the modern. Using this approach, he is able to look at many individual authors in a new way and to present significant reevaluations of many important texts. This book is also a study of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Author | : Alan Stephen Wolfe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Deconstruction |
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Author | : Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1984* |
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Author | : Noriko Mizuta Lippit |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351696882 |
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This title was first published in 1980. In twentieth century Japanese literature, the opposition and interaction of realism and romanticism on the level of literary concepts, and of Marxism and aestheticism (including, in part, modernism) on the level of literary ideology, supplies a most vital basis for writers searching for new methods of literary expression, fostering debates among the writers and creating the setting for active experimentation with style, form and language. This study is a result of an extended stay in the United States by the author who turned increasingly toward questioning and evaluating my own relation to Japan's literary heritage. For Japanese who have witnessed (at least intellectually) the violent attraction to and rejection of foreign cultures of many of their predecessors in the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras, and their final, often sentimental and abstract, glorification of the Japanese cultural heritage, nihon kaiki (return to Japan) still presents enormously complex intellectual as well as emotional problems.
Author | : Susan Napier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2005-07-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134803362 |
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An exploration of the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. A wide range of fantasists form the basis for a ground breaking analysis of the fantastic.
Author | : Rachael Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2006-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134233914 |
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Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in their work. Drawing on methodology from Foucault and Lacan, the clearly presented essays seek to show how Japanese writers have responded to the central question of what it means to be ‘Japanese’ and of how best to define their identity. Taking geographical, racial and ethnic identity as a starting point to explore Japan's vision of 'non-Japan', representations of the Other are examined in terms of the experiences of Japanese authors abroad and in the imaginary lands envisioned by authors in Japan. Using a diverse cross-section of writers and texts as case studies, this edited volume brings together contributions from a number of leading international experts in the field and is written at an accessible level, making it essential reading for those working in Japanese studies, colonialism, identity studies and nationalism.
Author | : Tadashi Ikeda |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Japanese literature |
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Author | : Rachael Hutchinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2016-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317647726 |
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The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive overview of how we study Japanese literature today. Rather than taking a purely chronological approach to the content, the chapters survey the state of the field through a number of pressing issues and themes, examining the ways in which it is possible to read modern Japanese literature and situate it in relation to critical theory. The Handbook examines various modes of literary production (such as fiction, poetry, and critical essays) as distinct forms of expression that nonetheless are closely interrelated. Attention is drawn to the idea of the bunjin as a ‘person of letters’ and a more realistic assessment is provided of how writers have engaged with ideas – not labelled a ‘novelist’ or ‘poet’, but a ‘writer’ who may at one time or another choose to write in various forms. The book provides an overview of major authors and genres by situating them within broader themes that have defined the way writers have produced literature in modern Japan, as well as how those works have been read and understood by different readers in different time periods. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature draws from an international array of established experts in the field as well as promising young researchers. It represents a wide variety of critical approaches, giving the study a broad range of perspectives. This handbook will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Literature, Sociology, Critical Theory, and History.
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Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 226 |
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