Purloined Letters : : Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 /

Purloined Letters : : Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 / / Mark H. Silver.

This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan-and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it-argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between "unequal" cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalen...

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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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Silver, Mark H.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Names and Romanization
  • 1. Introduction: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature
  • 2. Affirmations of Authority: Premodern and Early Meiji Crime Literature
  • 3. Borrowing the Detective Novel: Kuroiwa Ruikò and the Uses of Translation
  • 4. Arresting Change: Okamoto Kidò's Stories of Nostalgic Remembrance
  • 5. Anxieties of Influence: Edogawa Ranpo's Horrifying Hybrids
  • Coda: Cultural Borrowing Reconsidered
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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