Translating Mount Fuji : : Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity / / Dennis Washburn.
Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Real Identities
- 1. Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts
- 2. Translating Mount Fuji
- 3. Manly Virtue and Modern Identity
- 4. Real Images
- 5. Toward a View from Nowhere
- 6. Kitsch, Nihilism, and the Inauthentic
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index