Far Eastern category: 291 books
Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature
The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired...
Tokyo
Memory, Imagination, and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imagination—novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and films. Written by scholars of Japanese studies based in England, Germany, Japan, and the United...
The Strong and the Weak in Japanese Literature
Discrimination, Egalitarianism, Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
This book uses texts from classical to modern Japanese literature to examine concepts of 'respect for the strong', as a notion of an evolutionary society, and 'sympathy for the weak', as a notion of a non-violent and changeless egalitarian society.
The term strong refers not just to those...
Idly Scribbling Rhymers
Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a striking—but often overlooked—interest in poetry’s...
Haiku Before Haiku
From the Renga Masters to Basho
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku...
Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955
Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
Double Visions, Double Fictions
The Doppelgänger in Japanese Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literature—past and present
Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Dopplegänger (double-walker) can be found throughout a vast array of literature, culture, and media. This motif...
Perversion and Modern Japan
Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people...
by Odagiri Hideo, Hirano Ken, Sasaki Kiichi
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue...
by John Whittier Treat
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and...
Reading The Tale of Genji
Sources from the First Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The Tale of Genji, written one thousand years ago, is a masterpiece of Japanese literature, is often regarded as the best prose fiction in the language. Read, commented on, and reimagined by poets, scholars, dramatists, artists, and novelists, the tale has left a legacy as rich and reflective as the...
Juge Pao : le bonze perd la boule
& autres histoires policières de la Chine ancienne
Language: French
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Un recueil de quatre enquêtes du juge Pao, le plus célèbre des magistrats-détectives chinois : traduction en français de l’œuvre d'un auteur chinois anonyme du XVIIe siècle. Pour les amoureux de la Chine et de ses magistrats-détectives, pour...
Verse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry: while poetry as a representation...
Dragon in Ambush
The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Dragon in Ambush by Jeremy Ingallsis a critique and new translation of the first twenty poems of Mao Zedong’s published poetry. This seminal work stands out from previous translations of Mao’s poems in seeing them as an expression of his core political beliefs, rather than for their poetic effect....