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Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature
Authors: Mina Qiao
Description: Murakami Haruki, Ogawa Yoko, Tawada Yoko, Kanai Mieko, Hino Keizo, Murakami Ryu, Kawakami Hiromi, Murata Sayaka... These acclaimed authors are united by a shared fascination with fantastical conceptions of space. In highlighting these luminaries of contemporary Japanese literature, Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines the role of extramundane topos from an interdisciplinary approach. As writers navigate fantastical spaces in resistance to the logic of everyday life, they are able to challenge the dualistic norms on the body and mind that typify modern Japanese life. These studies demonstrate the essential role played by fantastical spaces in the development of modern Japanese literature to the present day. Scholars of Japanese studies, literature, and other fields will find this book an excellent resource for teaching and research.
Langue: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Categories: Literary Criticism
Texts of the Heisei Era
Authors: Lisette Gebhardt ,Christian Chappelow
Description: This volume with contributions on the literature of the Heisei era (1989-2019) contains analyses of contemporary Japanese literature. It presents authors such as Shimada Masahiko, Abe Kazushige, Tawada Yôko and Shôno Yoriko, who use sophisticated, self-reflective language and subversive arguments against systems of power to criticize the times in the context of the question of national identity and transculturality.
Langue: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Categories: Literary Criticism
Ōe and Beyond
Authors: Stephen Snyder ,Philip Gabriel
Description: Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, "mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large"? Or do they contain their own critical components, albeit in altered form? Oe and Beyond surveys the accomplishments of Oe and other writers of the postwar generation while looking further to examine the literary parameters of the "Post-Oe" generation. Despite the unprecedented availability today of the work of many of these writers in excellent English translations, some twenty years have passed since a collection of critical essays has appeared to guide the interested reader through the fascinating world of contemporary Japanese fiction. Oe and Beyond is a sampling of the best research and thinking on the current generation of Japanese writers being done in English. The essays in this volume explore such subjects as the continuing resonances of the atomic bombings; the notion of "transnational subjects"; the question of the "de-canonization" (as well as the "re-canonization") of writers; the construction (and deconstruction) of gender models; the quest for spirituality amid contemporary Japanese consumer affluence; post-modernity and Japanese "infantilism"; the intertwining connections between history, myth-making, and discrimination; and apocalyptic visions of fin de siecle Japan. Contributors pursue various methodological and theoretical approaches to reveal the breadth of scholarship on modern Japanese literature. The essays reflect some of the latest thinking, both Western and Japanese, on such topics as subjectivity, gender, history, modernity, and the postmodern. Oe and Beyond includes essays on Endo Shusaku, Hayashi Kyoko, Kanai Mieko, Kurahashi Yumiko, Murakami Haruki, Murakami Ryu, Nakagami Kenji, Oe Kenzaburo, Ohba Minako, Shimada Masahiko, Takahashi Takako, and Yoshimoto Banana. Contributors: Davinder L. Bhowmik, Philip Gabriel, Van C. Gessel, Adrienne Hurley, Susan J. Napier, Sharalyn Orbaugh, Jay Rubin, Atsuko Sakaki, Ann Sherif, Stephen Snyder, Mark Williams, Eve Zimmerman.
Langue: en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Categories: Literary Collections
Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater
Authors: Fran Mason
Description: The main aim of the book has been to include writers, movements, forms of writing and textual strategies, critical ideas, and texts that are significant in relation to postmodernist literature. In addition, important scholars, journals, and cultural processes have been included where these are felt to be relevant to an understanding of postmodernist writing. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the postmodernist literature and theater.
Langue: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Categories: Literary Criticism
In The Miso Soup
Authors: Ryu Murakami
Description: A rollercoaster ride from the cult master of the psycho-thriller
Langue: en
Publisher: A&C Black
Categories: Fiction
内側から見た日本
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Langue: en
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Categories: Japan
世界の日本研究
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Langue: en
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Categories: Japan
The Translator
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Langue: en
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Categories: Intercultural communication
Le Japon d'Amélie Nothomb
Authors: Jean-Michel Lou
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Langue: fr
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
Categories: Japan
Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007
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Langue: en
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Categories: Reference
Far Eastern Economic Review
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Langue: en
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Categories: East Asia
Le Point
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Langue: fr
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Actas del XIV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: literatura Española siglos XVII-XX
Authors: International Association of Hispanists. Congreso
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Langue: es
Publisher: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs
Categories: Literary Criticism
Actas del XV Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: Literatura española, siglos XIX, XX y XXI. Literatura del exilio. Teoría literaria. Cine y literatura
Authors: International Association of Hispanists. Congreso
Description: Los cuatro vol menes de esta edici n recogen las conferencias plenarias de Miguel Le n Portilla, Jens L dtke, N cholas Round, Maria Grazia Profeti, Mario Hern ndez y An bal Gonz lez, as como algunos de los trabajos presentados en las 97 sesiones que se llevaron a cabo del 19 al 24 de julio de 2004 en el Instituto Tecnol gico de Monterrey, en Nuevo Le n, M xico. el lema del congreso "Las dos orillas" sirivi de hilo conductor de esa nutrida reuni n acad mica de j venes y consagrados hispanistas procedentes de Europa, Am rica, Medio Oriente y Asia.
Langue: es
Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Encyclopédie du fantastique
Authors: Valérie Tritter
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Langue: fr
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Categories: Fantastic literature xHistory and criticism
Dictionary of Literary Biography - Yearbook 1998
Authors: Matthew J. Bruccoli ,George Garrett ,Richard Layman
Description: Updates entries already published and supplements the Dictionary of Literary Biography series with entries on newly prominent writers.
Langue: en
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Bibliographie nationale française
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Langue: fr
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Categories: Bibliography, National
Japanese Magazine Review
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Langue: en
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Categories: Japan
International Who's Who of Authors and Writers 2008
Authors: Europa Publications
Description: An invaluable source of information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world.
Langue: en
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Categories: Biography & Autobiography
New Statesman
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Langue: en
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Categories: Great Britain