Kyoka Japan S Comic Verse

Author : Robin D. Gill
Publisher : Paraverse Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780984092307

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Kyoka, Japan's Comic Verse by Robin D. Gill Pdf

Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included. This Reader is a selection from "Mad in Translation - a thousand years of kyoka, comic Japanese poetry in the classic waka mode," a 2000-poem, 200-chapter, 740-page monster of a book. It offers a 300-page double distillation high-proof sample of the poetry and prose, with improved translations, re-considered opinions and additional snake-legs (explanation some scholars may not need). The scattershot of two-page chapters and notes have been compounded into a score of cannonball-sized thematic chapters with just enough weight to bowl over most specialists yet, hopefully, not bore the amateur and sink a potentially broad-beamed readership. (More information may be found at the Paraverse Press website or Google Books)"

Author : Robin D. Gill
Publisher : Paraverse Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780974261874

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Mad in Translation by Robin D. Gill Pdf

Even readers with no particular interest in Japan - if such odd souls exist - may expect unexpected pleasure from this book if English metaphysical poetry, grooks, hyperlogical nonsense verse, outrageous epigrams, the (im)possibilities and process of translation between exotic tongues, the reason of puns and rhyme, outlandish metaphor, extreme hyperbole and whatnot tickle their fancy. Read together with The Woman Without a Hole, also by Robin D. Gill, the hitherto overlooked ulterior side of art poetry in Japan may now be thoroughly explored by monolinguals, though bilinguals and students of Japanese will be happy to know all the original Japanese is included.--amazon.com.

Author : Joel R. Cohn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684170210

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Studies in the Comic Spirit in Modern Japanese Fiction by Joel R. Cohn Pdf

Unlike traditional Japanese literature, which has a rich tradition of comedy, modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with a high seriousness of purpose. In this pathbreaking study, Joel R. Cohn analyzes works by three writers—Ibuse Masuji (1898–1993), Dazai Osamu (1909–1948), and Inoue Hisashi (1934– )—whose works constitute a relentless assault on the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature. Cohn focuses on thematic, structural, and stylistic elements in the works of these writers to show that modern Japanese comedic literature is a product of a particular set of historical, social, and cultural experiences. Cohn finds that cultural and social forces in modern Japan have led to the creation of comic literature that tends to deflect attention away from a human other and turn in on itself in different forms.

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814340912

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Understanding Humor in Japan by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

Japanese conventions about comedy and laughter are largely unanalyzed. For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, incomprehensible, paradoxical, and even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between humor in Japan and the West and examines the entire spectrum of Japanese humor, from ancient traditions and surviving rituals of laughter to norms of joke-telling in ordinary conversation in Japan and America. For anyone interested in Japan, Japanese culture, and humor studies, Understanding Humor in Japan is an important teaching tool. It provides accessible, illustrative examples of humor in both Japanese and English with explanations of their meaning and cultural significance. Scholarly yet readable, these essays offer intelligent discussion on such topics as the Japanese delight in wordplay, the comic content of Japanese newspapers, the role of film and television in developing Japanese stand-up comedy, and formal censorship and its impact on humorous writing and self-expression in Japan. Understanding Humor in Japan breaks new ground in the study of humor and sheds light on much that is taken for granted about the role of laughter in civilized societies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1394 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Japan
ISBN : UIUC:30112107019256

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The Japan Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Includes sections, "Who's who in Japan," "Business directory," etc.

Author : Kazuo Nishiyama
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824818504

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Edo Culture by Kazuo Nishiyama Pdf

Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated into a Western language. Edo Culture presents a selection of Nishiyama’s writings that serves not only to provide an excellent introduction to Tokugawa cultural history but also to fill many gaps in our knowledge of the daily life and diversions of the urban populace of the time. Many essays focus on the most important theme of Nishiyama’s work: the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries as a time of appropriation and development of Japan’s culture by its urban commoners. In the first of three main sections, Nishiyama outlines the history of Edo (Tokyo) during the city’s formative years, showing how it was shaped by the constant interaction between its warrior and commoner classes. Next, he discusses the spirit and aesthetic of the Edo native and traces the woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e to the communal activities of the city’s commoners. Section two focuses on the interaction of urban and rural culture during the nineteenth century and on the unprecedented cultural diffusion that occurred with the help of itinerant performers, pilgrims, and touring actors. Among the essays is a delightful and detailed discourse on Tokugawa cuisine. The third section is dedicated to music and theatre, beginning with a study of no, which was patronized mainly by the aristocracy but surprisingly by commoners as well. In separate chapters, Nishiyama analyzes the relation of social classes to musical genres and the aesthetics of kabuki. The final chapter focuses on vaudeville houses supported by the urban masses.

Author : Aaron Kerner,Julian Hoxter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030281762

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Theorizing Stupid Media by Aaron Kerner,Julian Hoxter Pdf

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at evolutionary moments. The Transformers franchise is often dismissed as being stupid because its stylistic vernacular privileges kinetic qualities over conventional narration. Similarly, the stupid is often present in genre fails like mother!, or in instances of narrative dissonance—joyously in Adventure Time; more controversially in Gone Home— where a story “feels off” It also manifests in “ludonarrative dissonance” when gameplay and narrative seemingly run counter to one another in videogames like Undertale and Bioshock. This book is addressed to those interested in media that is quirky, spectacle-driven, or generally hard to place—stupid!

Author : Marvin Marcus
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0824814509

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Paragons of the Ordinary by Marvin Marcus Pdf

Paragons of the Ordinary is about a quite extraordinary literary achievement: a series of biographies of obscure scholar-literati written by Mori Ogai, one of Japan's most prominent writers and intellectuals. Deeply concerned about the cultural toll taken by Japan's headlong modernization early in this century, Ogai employed the format of newspaper serialization in presenting meticulously researched accounts of individuals who had come to embody exemplary traits and traditional virtues. His unique project, undertaken over the period 1916-1921, resulted in nine interconnected works, the centerpiece of which is based on the life of Shibue Chusai, an all-but-unknown individual toward whom Ogai developed a deep bond of kinship and reverence, much like the sense of discipleship that Marvin Marcus holds toward Ogai. In exploring Ogai's biographical project, Marcus' aim is to convey a sense of its unique power and authority and to show how this power derives from Ogai's deft use of anecdotal episodes to highlight the exemplary character of his subject. Marcus places Ogai's work in the context of a long tradition of biographical narrative in Japan; at the same time he calls attention to the author's relationship to the contemporary literary scene and its journalistic orientation. Ogai's biographical works stand on their own as the unique artistic achievement of a giant of modern Japanese literature and culture. They also constitute a brilliant critique of a society that had lost touch with its traditional values. Marcus' reading of a literature often considered "inaccessible" or "elitist" will be relevant to the study of Japanese literature and history as well as to the craft of biographical research and of journalistic conventions that influence writers - in Japan as elsewhere.

Author : Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231516142

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Early Modern Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane Pdf

This abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential texts that have made the original volume such a valuable resource. The book introduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture books), sharebon (books of wit and fashion), yomihon, kokkeibon (books of humor), gokan (bound books), and ninjobon (books of romance and sentiment). It also features poetic genres such as waka, haiku, senryu, and kyoka, and plays ranging from Chikamatsu's puppet plays to nineteenth-century kabuki. Readers will continue to benefit from the anthology's selection of significant essays, treatises, literary criticism, folk stories, and other noncanonical works, as well as the numerous prints that accompanied these works. They will also find Shirane's introductions and critical commentary, which guide the reader through the allusive and often elliptical nature of these incredible selections.

Author : Aviad E. Raz
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674768949

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Riding the Black Ship by Aviad E. Raz Pdf

In 1996 over 16 million people visited Tokyo Disneyland, making it the most popular of the many theme parks in Japan. Since it opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture, particularly the "company manual." By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Aviad Raz shows that it is much more an example of successful importation, adaptation, and domestication and that it has succeeded precisely because it has become Japanese even while marketing itself as foreign. Rather than being an agent of Americanization, Tokyo Disneyland is a simulated "America" showcased by and for the Japanese. It is an "America" with a Japanese meaning.

Author : Rijksmuseum (Netherlands). Rijksprentenkabinet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Color prints
ISBN : PSU:000008176950

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Catalogue of the Collection of Japanese Prints: Hokusai and his school. Japanese prints, c. 1800-1840 by Rijksmuseum (Netherlands). Rijksprentenkabinet Pdf

Author : Anna Beerens
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789087280017

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Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils and Patrons by Anna Beerens Pdf

Annotation. This study of the social circumstances of Japanese intellectuals in the last quarter of the eighteenth century is based on biographical data concerning 173 individuals. It deals with the image of intellectual life of that period in current scholarship, and with the self-image and ethos of scholars, authors, poets and artists. That self-image and ethos, however, often clash with the realities of their everyday lives. This prosopographical investigation offers a new look at intellectual life on a basic level. The current image of intellectual life in the Tokugawa period is one of dissatisfaction and withdrawal, whereas the image that results from this study is one of dynamism and interaction. For more (Dutch-language) titles on Japan, please visit: "http://www.aup.nl/do.php?a=show_visitor_booklist&b=series&series=21">www.aup.nl/japan This title can be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789087280017.

Author : James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HWK7JJ

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A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015078242933

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Japan Echo by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Curtis Hepburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:B4121221

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和英英和語林集成 by James Curtis Hepburn Pdf