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Ambiguous bodies : reading the grotesque in Japanese setsuwa tales / Michelle Osterfeld Li.
LIBRA GR340 .L5 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Michelle Ilene Osterfeld, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Japanese.
- Tales--Japan--History and criticism.
- Tales.
- Japan.
- Japanese literature--To 1600--History and criticism.
- Japanese literature.
- Grotesque in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 319 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Setsuwa and the grotesque
- Fantastic detached body parts
- Curious sexual encounters
- Who eats whom? Flesh-eating demons and political power struggles
- The feminization of demons
- Animal spirits.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804759755
- 0804759758
- OCLC:
- 263408648
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