The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature write by Susan Jolliffe Napier. This book was released on 1996. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature write by Susan Napier. This book was released on 2005-07-22. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. It takes in the nightmarish future depicted in the animated film masterpiece, Akira, and the pastoral dream worlds created by Japan's Nobel Prize winning author Oe Kenzaburo. A wide range of fantasists, many discussed here in English for the first time, form the basis for a ground-breaking analysis of utopias, dystopias, the disturbing relationship between women, sexuality and modernity, and the role of the alien in the fantastic.
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature write by Susan Napier. This book was released on 2005-07-22. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature
The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature write by Susan Jolliffe Napier. This book was released on 1996. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
A Tokyo Anthology
A Tokyo Anthology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Tokyo Anthology write by Sumie Jones. This book was released on 2017-02-28. A Tokyo Anthology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology—including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons—tells the story of how the city’s literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and sometimes paradoxical political environment to move toward a consummate Japanese “modernity.” Tokyo’s downtown audience constituted a market that demanded visuality and spectacle, while the educated uptown favored written, realistic literature. The literary products resulting from these conflicting consumer bases were therefore hybrid entities of old and new technologies. A Tokyo Anthology guides the reader through Japanese literature’s journey from classical to spoken, pictocentric to logocentric, and fantastic to realistic—making the novel the dominant form of modern literature. The volume highlights not only familiar masterpieces but also lesser known examples chosen from the city’s downtown life and counterculture. Imitating the custom of creative artists of the Edo period, scholars from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan have collaborated in order to produce this intriguing sampling of Meiji works in the best possible translations. The editors have sought out the most reliable first editions of texts, also reproducing most of their original illustrations. With few exceptions the translations presented here are the first in the English language. This rich anthology will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japan studies and by a wide general audience interested in Japan’s popular culture, media culture, and literature in translation.
