Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first monograph-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities-both reading and writing-of Japanese migrants to Brazil.

This volume has a dual purpose.

This book traces the creative dialogue between France and Japan in the early 20th century, focusing on Surrealist and avant-garde writings that challenge and break apart clear and bounded conceptions of language, poetry, and meaning.

The essays in the final section of the book, Japan's Literary Hermeneutics, rethink the notion of Japanese literature in light of recent findings on the ideological implications of canon formations and transformations within Japan's ...

This volume brings together in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese prose dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries, a period during which the preeminent cultural and aesthetic values were those of the Heian court.

The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.

"Yasuoka s venal, youthful first-person narrators grasp at beauty and romance amid a changing Japan in these nine stories, all published in Japan in the early 1950s .

Treat summarizes the Japanese contribution to such ongoing international debates as the crisis of modern ethics, the relationship of experience to memory, and the possibility of writing history.

In his book, Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture.

It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.

The anthology contains new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike and generous selections from Man'yoshu, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book, and Kokinshu.

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

This work chronicles the writings of Hino Ashihei, who rose to celebrity status during the Pacific War for his accounts of campaigns in China and Southeast Asia.

The collection considers the increasing prominence of stories of ageing, challenging the idea that old age is an uneventful time outside of the parameters of literary narrative. Instead, age increasingly is the story.

The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.

This volume discusses the past, present and future perspectives of literature in Japan, China and South Korea and its interface with India.

During the first half of the 20th century, Japan was the dominant military & political force in East Asia.

Rimbaud, le monde entier le connaît. Au Japon bien sûr, ce que j'avais très vite appris lors de repas avec des enseignants japonais de français, parmi Sartre, Camus, Proust...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Written by Andrew Gosling, former chief librarian for the Library's Asian Collections, Asian Treasures provides a fascinating glimpse into the remarkable pieces - old and modern - that the Library has acquired from the Asian region.

"--Journal of Japanese Studies "A very important contribution to Japanese studies . . . a paradigm of the genre."--Pacific Affairs "This is an exciting, ground-breaking book.

Covering more than 125 years of modern and contemporary Japanese history, this book introduces a diverse array of authors to an English-speaking audience and provide further context for their works.

Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji.

The present volume is the product of a joint effort made by scholars from across China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Europe. The book gathers sixteen papers devoted to literary and cultural criticism from a comparative point of view.

Dieser Band enthält siebzehn Aufsätze, die neue Ansatzpunkte der kulturellen Interaktion und neues Material vorstellen.

The reality is that other countries sometimes show their autonomy by transforming, distorting, and rejecting aspects of American culture, and Ishihara explains how this is no less true in the case of Twain.

This study examines the contradictory relationships between preservation, production, and redaction to shed light on the dark valley attributed to wartime culture and to cast a shadow on the supposedly bright, open space of free postwar ...

"Filled with insights, original conclusions, and alternate readings of historical evidence.... What Michele Marra has done is to illuminate the political intent in artistic creation and thus add new depth to our historical understanding.

All scholars interested in Japan, historically and culturally, should read "Civilization and Monsters.""--Stefan Tanaka, University of California, San Diego

Waley was the single most important force in creating what the English-speaking public understood to be Japanese literature with his popular and critically acclaimed translations of Japanese poetry, no plays and the celebrated 11th-century ...

This volume is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature.

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Who was Semimaru? Whether he was a blind wandering lute player or a beggar who was once a prince, Semimaru's legend has inspired many of Japan's literary giants for over a thousand years.

Disquieting stories exploring women's freedom & bondage in post-WWII Japan.

This book represents an exciting new stage in studies of classical Japanese literature, as scholars turn from the translation with brief introduction to studies that are the products of application of literary theory and original critical ...

In a series of interviews Woody Allen shares the anxieties, frustrations, and inspirations in his life.

This is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture.

Beautifully illustrated, this book serves as an invaluable guide for readers interested in The Tale of Genji, Japanese literature, and the captivating visual world of Japan's most celebrated work of fiction.

Studies Japan in the late 1800's and early 1900's from its intellectual currents, its literature, and the impact of the American immigration laws on Japanese life.

A Stanford University Press classic.

This series of interpretations of selected classics examines premodern Japanese literature from the perspective of conflictual ideologies.

Avec des contributions d'auteurs français et asiatiques, ce livre offre non seulement un face-à-face entre Occident et Extrême-Orient, mais ces "nouveaux discours sur la montagne" tentent finalement de montrer, à travers la littérature ...

This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern ...

How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? Travis Workman delves into these questions through texts in philosophy, literature, and social science.

"Reichert demonstrates overall a depth of knowledge of the genre, and as a result this book is filled with numerous thought-provoking and informative narratives.

This is no mean feat . . . and for it he deserves much gratitude. . . . Given the difficulties of Kobayashi s style . . . translation is a paramount issue. Anderer has risen to the occasion admirably.

The Buddhist priest Kenko clung to tradition, Buddhism, and the pleasures of solitude, and the themes he treats in his "Essays, " written sometime between 1330 and 1332, are all suffused with an unspoken acceptance of Buddhist beliefs.

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.