Rediscovering Natsume Sōseki

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004214026

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Rediscovering Natsume Sōseki by Anonim Pdf

First publication in English of Soseki’s travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway. 6-week travelogue including boat from Osaka to Dairen, railway up the Liaodong Peninsular to Fushun. Many descriptions of Manchuria. It is a lively, informative and sometimes very funny narrative, which reveals Soseki's wit and Western-style humour in observing the human condition, as well as the literary techniques that characterize his subsequent achievements in shaping the modern Japanese novel. The Introduction by Inger Sigrun Brodey provides both a new perspective on Soseki the man and writer, as well as an insightful commentary on the SMR journey itself and the place of the travelogue in Soseki's writings. A selection of Sammy Tsumematsu's collection of previously unpublished photographs of Soseki is also included.

Author : Sōseki Natsume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Korea
ISBN : OCLC:651814592

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Rediscovering Natsume Sōseki by Sōseki Natsume Pdf

Author : Marvin Marcus
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780824833060

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Reflections in a Glass Door by Marvin Marcus Pdf

Much has been written about Natsume Soseki (1867–1916), one of Japan’s most celebrated writers. Known primarily for his novels, he also published a large and diverse body of short personal writings (shohin) that have long lived in the shadow of his fictional works. The essays, which appeared in the Asahi shinbun between 1907 and 1915, comprise a fascinating autobiographical mosaic, while capturing the spirit of the Meiji era and the birth of modern Japan. In Reflections in a Glass Door, Marvin Marcus introduces readers to a rich sampling of Soseki’s shohin. The writer revisits his Tokyo childhood, recalling family, friends, and colleagues and musing wistfully on the transformation of his city and its old neighborhoods. He painfully recounts his two years in London, where he immersed himself in literary research even as he struggled with severe depression. A chronic stomach ailment causes Soseki to reflect on his own mortality and what he saw as the spiritual afflictions of modern Japanese: rampant egocentrism and materialism. Throughout he adopts a number of narrative voices and poses: the peevish husband, the harried novelist, the convalescent, the seeker of wisdom. Marcus identifies memory and melancholy as key themes in Soseki’s personal writings and highlights their relevance in his fiction. He balances Soseki’s account of his Tokyo household with that of his wife, Natsume Kyoko, who left a straightforward record of life with her celebrated husband. Soseki crafted a moving and convincing voice in his shohin, which can now be pondered and enjoyed for their penetrating observation and honesty, as well as the fresh perspective they offer on one of Japan’s literary giants.

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101195819

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Kokoro by Natsume Soseki Pdf

The father of modern Japanese literature's best-loved novel, in its first new English translation in half a century No collection of Japanese literature is complete without Natsume Soseki's Kokoro, his most famous novel and the last he completed before his death. Published here in the first new translation in more than fifty years, Kokoro—meaning "heart"—is the story of a subtle and poignant friendship between two unnamed characters, a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls "Sensei." Haunted by tragic secrets that have cast a long shadow over his life, Sensei slowly opens up to his young disciple, confessing indiscretions from his own student days that have left him reeling with guilt, and revealing, in the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between his moral anguish and his student's struggle to understand it, the profound cultural shift from one generation to the next that characterized Japan in the early twentieth century.

Author : Sukehiro Hirakawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004214101

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Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn by Sukehiro Hirakawa Pdf

A discussion of one of the great interpreters of Japan. The Japanese have always revered Hearn and this book shows the West why he is revered. Experts look at his writings and discuss his integrity as an observer and interpreter of Japan and the Japanese.

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781789204629

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Globalizing Automobilism by Gijs Mom Pdf

Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular culture, Mom reveals here the roots of the exuberance, excess, and danger that define modern automotive culture.

Author : Natsume Soseki,Inger Brodey
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781462902224

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My Individualism and the Philosophical Foundations of Litera by Natsume Soseki,Inger Brodey Pdf

Published here for the first time in English, My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature are essays which explore issues close to famed Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid technological, industrial and cultural change. Set against the background of the Meiji era, in which Soseki believed modern man was dislocated from Japan's past as well as its future, he defines the role of art and the artist in light of the loneliness and individualism of the modern world. True to his self-conscious style, each essay includes individual biographical anecdotes, inviting their allegorical reading as stories about the fate of Japan. In My Individualism, Soseki gives a rare account of his stay in London from the perspective of twelve years after his return, allowing us to see the profound shift in his thinking about literature that occurred during this time. In The Philosophical Foundations of Literature, we find one of Soseki's principal attempts to provide a cross-cultural framework for the interpretation of literature. Together, the essays reveal Soseki's attempts to create a theory of literature that is characteristically Japanese.

Author : Michael David Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 3388 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781438140735

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Encyclopedia of the World Novel, 1900 to the Present by Michael David Sollars,Arbolina Llamas Jennings Pdf

Praise for the print edition:"...a useful and engaging reference to the vast world of the novel in world literature."

Author : Kate McDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520967236

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Placing Empire by Kate McDonald Pdf

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. The book thus illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance.

Author : William O. Gardner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174270

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Advertising Tower by William O. Gardner Pdf

On a December morning in 1925, a newspaper journalist reported receiving 25 different handbills in an hour’s walk in downtown Tokyo, advertising everything from Western-style clothing and furniture to sweet shops, charity organizations, phonograph recordings, plays, and films. The activities of advertisers, and the new entertainment culture and patterns of consumption that they promoted, helped to define a new urban aesthetic emerging in the 1920s. This book examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the twentieth century. In particular, it explores the themes and formal strategies of the modernist literature that flourished in the 1920s, focusing on the work of Hagiwara Kyojiro (1899-1938) and Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). William Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of individual subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of "mass media." Hagiwara’s conception of the poem and poet as an electric-radio "advertising tower" provides an emblem for the aesthetic tensions and multiple discourses of technology, media, urbanism, commerce, and propaganda that were circulating through the urban environment at the time; while Hayashi’s work, with its references to popular songs, plays, and movies, suggests an understanding of "everyday life" as the interface between individual subjectivity and a highly mediated environment.

Author : Ian Nish
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004531789

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The Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5 by Ian Nish Pdf

An in-depth look at reports, documents, etc. describing one of the most important conflicts of the twentieth century. It was the first time that the East (Japan) fought and defeated the West (Russia). It has been described as the first step on the way to the First and Second World Wars. The print edition is available as a set of eight volumes (9781901903065).

Author : Laura Hein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350025813

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Post-Fascist Japan by Laura Hein Pdf

In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They rapidly transformed their political culture-policies, institutions, and public opinion-to create a more equitable, democratic and peaceful society. Post-Fascist Japan explores this phenomenon, focusing on a group of highly educated Japanese based in the city of Kamakura, where the new political culture was particularly visible. The book argues that these leftist elites, many of whom had been seen as 'the enemy' during the war, saw the problem as one of fascism, an ideology that had succeeded because it had addressed real problems. They turned their efforts to overtly political-legal systems but also to ostensibly non-political and community institutions such as universities, art museums, local tourism, and environmental policies, aiming not only for reconciliation over the past but also to reduce the anxieties that had drawn so many towards fascism. By focusing on people who had an outsized influence on Japan's political culture, Hein's study is local, national, and transnational. She grounds her discussion using specific personalities, showing their ideas about 'post-fascism', how they implemented them and how they interacted with the American occupiers.

Author : William N. Ridgeway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004861730

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A Critical Study of the Novels of Natsume Sōseki, 1867-1916 by William N. Ridgeway Pdf

This study is a comparative analysis of the major works of Natsume Soseki, which compares Japan's greatest novelist with his contemporaries, his works with influential English novels, his social milieu and literary concerns with Victorians and writers of his day. There being no golden key to unlock the mysteries of Soseki's novels, this critical inquiry uses unexplored categories of analysis- gender, sexuality, the body, and desire-to fathom the depth and breadth of Soseki's fictional world: interpersonal relations, gender roles, gender conflict, the battle of the sexes, love and disease, erotic triangles, love betrayed. Included is an Annotated Bibliography of Soseki scholarship and also a publishing history of the author's works translated into foreign languages.

Author : Natsume Soseki
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101097557

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Kusamakura by Natsume Soseki Pdf

A stunning new English translation—the first in more than forty years—of a major novel by the father of modern Japanese fiction Natsume Soseki's Kusamakura—meaning “grass pillow”—follows its nameless young artist-narrator on a meandering walking tour of the mountains. At the inn at a hot spring resort, he has a series of mysterious encounters with Nami, the lovely young daughter of the establishment. Nami, or "beauty," is the center of this elegant novel, the still point around which the artist moves and the enigmatic subject of Soseki's word painting. In the author's words, Kusamakura is "a haiku-style novel, that lives through beauty." Written at a time when Japan was opening its doors to the rest of the world, Kusamakura turns inward, to the pristine mountain idyll and the taciturn lyricism of its courtship scenes, enshrining the essence of old Japan in a work of enchanting literary nostalgia.

Author : Rachael Hutchinson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438439082

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Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism by Rachael Hutchinson Pdf

Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) spent more time abroad than any other writer of his generation, firing the Japanese imagination with his visions of America and France. Applying the theoretical framework of Occidentalism to Japanese literature, Rachael Hutchinson explores Kafū's construction of the Western Other, an integral part of his critique of Meiji civilization. Through contrast with the Western Other, Kafū was able to solve the dilemma that so plagued Japanese intellectuals—how to modernize and yet retain an authentic Japanese identity in the modern world. Kafū's flexible positioning of imagined spaces like the "West" and the "Orient" ultimately led him to a definition of the Japanese Self. Hutchinson analyzes the wide range of Kafū's work, particularly those novels and stories reflecting Kafū's time in the West and the return to Japan, most unknown to Western readers and a number unavailable in English, along with his better-known depictions of Edo's demimonde. Kafū's place in Japan's intellectual history and his influence on other writers are also discussed.