Japanese And Western Literature

Author : Armando Martins Janeira
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781462912131

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Japanese and Western Literature by Armando Martins Janeira Pdf

Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese poet Torga and the haiku master Issa, and between the picaresque novel in Japan and in the West. Contrastive studies are also made into such concepts as time, nature, love, and tragedy. This broad yet incisive survey of Japanese literarily genres and themes is more than a comparative study of literature, however; it is an attempt to grasp the core of Japanese culture by setting it against world culture. From this born a complex of new ideas and problems, and author is able to probe the extent of Western influence on Japanese fiction, poetry, and essays in the past hundred years.

Author : J. Miller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230107557

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Adaptions of Western Literature in Meiji Japan by J. Miller Pdf

This book examines three examples of late nineteenth-century Japanese adaptations of Western literature: a biography of U.S. Grant recasting him as a Japanese warrior, a Victorian novel reset as oral performance, and an American melodrama redone as a serialized novel promoting the reform of Japanese theater. Written from a comparative perspective, it argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory.

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Japanese literature
ISBN : LCCN:55006276

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Japanese Literature by Donald Keene Pdf

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4805307536

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日本文学の手引 by Donald Keene Pdf

Author : J. Miller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312239955

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Adaptions of Western Literature in Meiji Japan by J. Miller Pdf

This book examines three examples of late nineteenth-century Japanese adaptations of Western literature: a biography of U.S. Grant recasting him as a Japanese warrior, a Victorian novel reset as oral performance, and an American melodrama redone as a serialized novel promoting the reform of Japanese theater. Written from a comparative perspective, it argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory.

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Japanese literature
ISBN : 4805304243

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Japanese Literature by Donald Keene Pdf

Author : Hiroko Oyamada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228862

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The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada Pdf

The English-language debut of Hiroko Oyamada—one of the most powerfully strange young voices in Japan The English-language debut of one of Japan's most exciting new writers, The Factory follows three workers at a sprawling industrial factory. Each worker focuses intently on the specific task they've been assigned: one shreds paper, one proofreads documents, and another studies the moss growing all over the expansive grounds. But their lives slowly become governed by their work—days take on a strange logic and momentum, and little by little, the margins of reality seem to be dissolving: Where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin? What's going on with the strange animals here? And after a while—it could be weeks or years—the three workers struggle to answer the most basic question: What am I doing here? With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, The Factory casts a vivid—and sometimes surreal—portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of the modern workplace.

Author : D. Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:925922469

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Japanese Literature by D. Keene Pdf

Author : Kōjin Karatani
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822313235

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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature by Kōjin Karatani Pdf

Karatani Kojin is one of Japan's leading critics. In his work as a theoretician, he has described Modernity as have few others; he has re-evaluated the literature of the entire Meiji period and beyond. As one critic has said, Karatani's thought "has had a profound effect on the way we formulate the questions we ask about modern literature and culture ... [his] argument is compelling, moving even, and in the end the reader comes away with a different understanding not only of modern Japanese literature but of modern Japan itself." Among the many authors discussed are Soseki Natsume, Doppo Kunikida, Katai Tayama, and Shoyo Tsubouchi.

Author : Massimiliano Tomasi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0824827988

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Rhetoric in Modern Japan by Massimiliano Tomasi Pdf

Rhetoric in Modern Japan is the first volume to discuss the role of Western rhetoric in the creation of a modern Japanese oral and narrative style. It considers the introduction of Western rhetoric, clarifying its interactions with the forces and synergies that shaped Japanese literature and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the Meiji and Taishō years (1868-1926), it challenges the prevailing view among contemporary scholars that rhetoric did not play a significant role in the literary developments of the period. Massimiliano Tomasi chronicles the blooming of scholarship in the field in the early 1870s, providing the first descriptive analysis and cogently articulated critique of the major rhetorical treatises of the time. In discussing the rise of public speaking in early Meiji society, he unveils the existence of crucial links between the study of rhetoric and the social and literary events of the time, underscoring the key role played by oratory both as a tool for social modernization and as an effective platform for the reappraisal of the spoken language. The collusion and conflicts characterizing rhetoric and its relationship with the genbun itchi movement, which sought to unify spoken and written language, are explored, demonstrating that their perceived antagonism was the uh_product of a misguided notion of rhetoric and the process of rhetorical signification rather than a true theoretical conflict. Tomasi makes a convincing argument that, in fact, Western rhetoric mediated between these equally compelling pursuits and paved the way toward an acceptable compromise between classical and colloquial written styles.

Author : Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1571811087

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Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations by Heide Fehrenbach,Uta G. Poiger Pdf

From an April 1996 colloquium, The American Cultural Impact on Germany, France, Italy, and Japan, 1945-1995: An International Comparison, 11 essays examine the reception and impact of American products and images. Most of the contributors are historians, but others from fields such as architecture and literature. They move beyond the standard model of cultural colonialism and democratic modernization, while never loosing sight of the asymmetry in power relations between the countries and the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert Thomas Tierney
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520947665

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Tropics of Savagery by Robert Thomas Tierney Pdf

Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized. By examining the representations of Taiwanese aborigines and indigenous Micronesians in the works of prominent writers, he shows that the trope of the savage underwent several metamorphoses over the course of Japan's colonial period--violent headhunter to be subjugated, ethnographic other to be studied, happy primitive to be exoticized, and hybrid colonial subject to be assimilated.

Author : M. W. Shores
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108926673

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The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan by M. W. Shores Pdf

Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods, it is still popular today, with many contemporary Japanese comedians having originally trained as rakugo artists. Rakugo is divided into two distinct strands, the Tokyo tradition and the Osaka tradition, with the latter having previously been largely overlooked. This pioneering study of the Kamigata (Osaka) rakugo tradition presents the first complete English translation of five classic rakugo stories, and offers a history of comic storytelling in Kamigata (modern Kansai, Kinki) from the seventeenth century to the present day. Considering the art in terms of gender, literature, performance, and society, this volume grounds Kamigata rakugo in its distinct cultural context and sheds light on the 'other' rakugo for students and scholars of Japanese culture and history.

Author : Leith Morton
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824864576

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The Alien Within by Leith Morton Pdf

Readers worldwide have long been drawn to the foreign, the exotic, and the alien, even before Freud’s famous essay on the uncanny in 1919. Given Japan’s many years of relative isolation, followed by its multicultural empire, these themes seem particularly ripe for exploration and exploitation by Japanese writers. Their literary adventures have taken them inside Japan as well as outside, and how they internalized the exotic through the adoption of modernist techniques and subject matter forms the primary subject of this book. The Alien Within is the first book-length thematic study in English of the alien in modern Japanese literature and helps shed new light on a number of important authors. Morton examines the Gothic, a form of writing with strong affinities to European Gothic and a motif in the fiction of several key modern Japanese writers, such as Arishima Takeo. Morton also discusses the translations of Tsubouchi Shoyo, Japan’s most famous early translator of Shakespeare, and how this most alien and exotic author was absorbed into the Japanese literary and theatrical tradition. The new field of translation theory and how it relates to translating Shakespeare are also discussed. Morton devotes two chapters to the celebrated female poet Yosano Akiko, whose verse on childbirth and her unborn children broke taboos relating to the expression of the female body and sensibility. He also highlights the writing of contemporary Okinawan novelist Oshiro Tatsuhiro, whose work springs from what is for Japanese an exotic subtropical landscape and makes symbolic reference to the otherness at the heart of Japanese religiosity. Another significant but equally overlooked subject is the focus of the final chapter, which analyzes the travel writing of internationally best-selling author Murakami Haruki. Murakami’s great corpus of work includes a one-volume study of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, which Morton discusses in detail. The Alien Within breaks new ground in its treatment of the exotic in modern Japanese writing and in its discussion of authors and work hitherto absent from critical discussions in English. It will be of significant interest to readers of literature and students of modern Japanese culture and women’s writing as well as those fascinated by the occult, Gothic fiction, and the exotic.

Author : Donald Keene
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000156512

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Modern Japanese Novels and the West by Donald Keene Pdf