Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Asian - Japanese

Tosaka Jun (1900-1945) was one of modern Japan's most unique and important critics of capitalism, the emperor system, imperialism, and everyday life in wartime Japan. This collection of translations contains some of Tosaka's most important essays and original articles on Tosaka.

This is a partial translation of one of the most important texts produced by Motoori Norinaga. It covers a wide range of Norinaga's thought and provides a lens onto his philological methodology, as well as how he viewed literature, poetry, history, linguistics, and Shinto.

Emmerich begins with an analysis of the lavishly produced best seller Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin...

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...

Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.

In this guide to Ishiguro s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:

• a biographical survey of Ishiguro s literary career, and an introduction to his novels, plays and short stories
• an accessible overview of the contexts and many interpretations of his work, from publication to the present
• discussions of key topics in Ishiguro...

Until the late nineteenth century, Japan could boast of an elaborate cultural tradition surrounding the love and desire that men felt for other men. By the first years of the twentieth century, however, as heterosexuality became associated with an enlightened modernity, love between men was increasingly branded as feudal or immature. The resulting rupture in what has been called the male homosocial continuum constitutes one of the most significant markers of Japan s entrance into modernity. And yet, just as early Japanese modernity often seemed haunted by remnants of the premodern past,...

"Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)" is traditionally identified as one of the most important Japanese literary texts of the Heian period (794 1185). Since its enshrinement in the classical literary canon as early as the eleventh century, the work has also been the object of intensive study and extensive commentary. Its idiosyncratic form 125 loosely connected episodes recounting the life and loves of an anonymous courtier and mysterious authorship have provoked centuries of explication.

Jamie Newhard s study skillfully combines primary-source research with a theoretically framed analysis,...

Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married at age thirty-three and identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. The Sarashina Diary is a portrait of the...

Die Schriftenreihe der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule fur literaturwissenschaftliche Studien an der Freien Universitat Berlin steht fur eine international ausgerichtete Literaturwissenschaft, die sich von der ausschlielichen Fixierung auf die westliche Tradition gelost hat und auf die europaischen, amerikanischen, arabischen und asiatischen Literaturen der Moderne, des Mittelalters und des Altertums zielt. Das Publikationsforum prasentiert Monographien und Sammelbande, die eine exemplarische Leistung in ihrem Fachgebiet darstellen und zugleich uber dessen Grenzen ins Gemeinsame der...

In an "other world" composed of language--it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest--a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts--people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking machines that traverse the dark psychic underworld of this writer's extraordinary fiction.

Fervently acclaimed worldwide, Murakami's wildly imaginative work in many ways remains a...