Author: Armando Martins Janeira
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462912133
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 339
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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: Nancy Junko Beauchamp
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Author: 国際交流基金
Publisher: Tokyo, Japan : The Japan Foundation
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Author: Michael K. Bourdaghs
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472901435
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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The 1970s and 1980s saw a revolution in Japanese literary criticism. A new generation of scholars and critics, many of them veterans of 1960s political activism, arose in revolt against the largely positivistic methodologies that had hitherto dominated postwar literary studies. Creatively refashioning approaches taken from the field of linguistics, the new scholarship challenged orthodox interpretations, often introducing new methodologies in the process: structuralism, semiotics, and phenomenological linguistics, among others. The radical changes introduced then continue to reverberate today, shaping the way Japanese literature is studied both at home and abroad. The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies is the first critical study of this revolution to appear in English. It includes translations of landmark essays published in the 1970s and 1980s by such influential figures as Noguchi Takehiko, Kamei Hideo, Mitani Kuniaki, and Hirata Yumi. It also collects nine new essays that reflect critically on the emergence of linguistics-based literary criticism and theory in Japan, exploring both the novel possibilities such theory created and the shortcomings that could not be overcome. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and fields probe the political and intellectual implications of this transformation and explore the exciting new pathways it opened up for the study of modern Japanese literature.
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 952
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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Author: 国立国会図書館 (Japan)
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: East-West Center. Library
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Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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