Japanese Writers And The West
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Author | : S. Okada |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2003-07-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230596509 |
This book concludes Sumie Okada's trilogy concerning cultural relationships between Japan and the West. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their traditional Japanese group-consciousness and western individualism. It also covers Endo's student days in Lyon, and his relationship with the humanist Françoise Pastre, appending a moving account by her sister Geneviève.
Author | : S. Okada |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003-07-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333743102 |
This book concludes Sumie Okada's trilogy concerning cultural relationships between Japan and the West. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their traditional Japanese group-consciousness and western individualism. It also covers Endo's student days in Lyon, and his relationship with the humanist Françoise Pastre, appending a moving account by her sister Geneviève.
Author | : Donald Keene |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780231114394 |
Donald Keene's definitive history of modern Japanese literature is an achievement beyond the range and scope of any other western writer.
Author | : Donald Keene |
Publisher | : New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Japanese literature |
ISBN | : |
"Dawn to the West, a two-volume work covering the modern period in Japanese literature, is part of a larger work, Donald Keene's multi-volume history of the whole of Japanese literature."-T.p. verso.
Author | : Armando Martins Janeira |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1462912133 |
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 | : Jun'ichirō Tanizaki |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2024-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
A hilarious story of one man’s obsession and a brilliant reckoning of a nation’s cultural confusion—from a master Japanese novelist. When twenty-eight-year-old Joji first lays eyes upon the teenage waitress Naomi, he is instantly smitten by her exotic, almost Western appearance. Determined to transform her into the perfect wife and to whisk her away from the seamy underbelly of post-World War I Tokyo, Joji adopts and ultimately marries Naomi, paying for English and music lessons that promise to mold her into his ideal companion. But as she grows older, Joji discovers that Naomi is far from the naïve girl of his fantasies. And, in Tanizaki’s masterpiece of lurid obsession, passion quickly descends into comically helpless masochism.
Author | : Kōjin Karatani |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780822313236 |
Karatani Kojin is one of Japan's leading critics. In his work as a theoretician, he has described Modernity as have few others; he has re-evaluated the literature of the entire Meiji period and beyond. As one critic has said, Karatani's thought "has had a profound effect on the way we formulate the questions we ask about modern literature and culture ... [his] argument is compelling, moving even, and in the end the reader comes away with a different understanding not only of modern Japanese literature but of modern Japan itself." Among the many authors discussed are Soseki Natsume, Doppo Kunikida, Katai Tayama, and Shoyo Tsubouchi.
Author | : Donald Keene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Japanese literature |
ISBN | : 9784805304242 |
Author | : Haruki Murakami |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010-08-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307762742 |
South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the fault lines of doubt in Hajime’s quotidian existence begin to give way. Rich, mysterious, and quietly dazzling, in South of the Border, West of the Sun the simple arc of one man’s life becomes the exquisite literary terrain of Murakami’s remarkable genius.
Author | : Sachiko Shibata Schierbeck |
Publisher | : Museum Tusculanum Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9788772892689 |
It was not until Kawabata Yasunari won the 1968 Nobel Prize for literature that the average Western reader became aware of contemporary Japanese literature. A few translations of writings by Japanese women have appeared lately, yet the West remains largely ignorant of this wide field. In this book Sachiko Schierbeck profiles the 104 female winners of prestigious literary prizes in Japan since the beginning of the century. It contains summaries of their selected works, and a bibliography of works translated into Western languages from 1900 to 1993. These works give insight into the minds and hearts of Japanese women and draw a truer picture of the conditions of Japanese community life than any sociological study would present. Schierbeck's 104 biographies constitute a useful reference work not only to students of literature but to anyone with an interest in women's studies, history or sociology.