Rethinking Japan / edited by Adriana Boscaro, Franco Gatti and Massimo Raveri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boscaro, Adriana.

Gatti, Franco.

Raveri, Massimo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Congresses.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; DEDICATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I: Literature & Visual Arts; 1. Abe Kobo's Internationalism; 2. Rethinking Soseki's Mon; 3. The Melancholy Flagellant or the Responsibility of Literature: Takahashi Kazumi and his Project for a Revolution; 4. Abe Kobo's 'Ark Sakura'; 5. The Socialization of Literature: The Idea and Prototypes of the Mid-Meiji Social Novel; 6. Japanese Architecture Today; 7. Problems of Attribution in Japanese Art: The Case of Hokusai's Paintings

8. The Impact of Geographical Conditions on Japanese Creativity9. Visions of Japan through Modern Films; 10. Can Japanese Literature be Translated; 11. A Sense of Tragedy: Attitudes in Europe and Japan; 12. Once More: On Problems of Literary Historiography; 13. The Problem of Time in Japanese Literature; 14. Chaos or Coherence? Satō Haruo's Novel Dennen no yūtsu and Yu Dafu's trilogy Chenlun; 15. Unheeded Voices: Winked-at Lives; 16. Yūgen: Aesthetics and its Implications in Global Communication; 17. Recognizing and Translating Covert Irony in Japanese Literature

18. The Eccentric Tree: Kami and Gaki in the Botanical Imagination of of the Medieval Japanese19. A European Eye on Japanese Arts and a Japanese Response to 'Japonisme' (1860-1920); 20. Communitas, Equality, Anti-structure: Reading Buson's Painting and Basho's Prose Poem, 'The Broken Hammer'; 21. Japanese Diaries; 22. Towards a Definition of Tama; 23. 'Sleeves' and 'Tears' in Classical Japanese Poetry and Lyrical Prose; 24. From Insularity to Internationalism: Kabuki in the Twenty-first Century; 25. The Shingeki Movement Until 1930: its Experience in Western Approach; PART II: Linguistics

26. Rethinking Translation: The Role of Word Systems in the Translatability of Texts into Japanese27. The Changing Language in a Changing Society; 28. How to Carry Something on Your Head in Japanese; 29. On the Necessity of Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Minor Languages of Europe; 30. Japanese Relative Clause Strategies; 31. A Contemporary View of the Japanese Verbal System; 32. Synchronic and Diachronic Approaches to the noda Sentence; 33. Intersection of Tense and Aspect in the Dynamic Predicate in Japanese; 34. On Prejudice Nominals in Japanese; NOTES; INDEX

Notes:

First published 1991 by Japan Library Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-135-88053-0

1-138-99732-3

1-135-88046-8

1-315-06030-2

9781315060309

OCLC:

869520884