Lafcadio Hearn in international perspectives / edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hirakawa, Sukehiro.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2010
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; 1. Lafcadio Hearn, A Reappraisal /; 2. What Does His Greek Mother Mean To Hearn, The Japan Interpreter? /; 3. Lafcadio’s Nightmares /; 4. Hearn And The Sea /; 5. Hearn: Interpreter Of The Animistic World Of The Japanese /; 6. Return To Japan Or Return To The West? – Hearn’s ‘A Conservative’ /; 7. Half A Century After Byron: What Did Greece Mean To The Writer Hearn? /; 8. Lafcadio Hearn As An American Writer /; 9. Image Of ‘The Creole Mother’ In Hearn’s Youma /; 10. From Folklore To Literature – Hearn And Japanese Legends Of Tree Spirits /; 11. Hearn And ‘Orpheus’ – His Art Of Retelling Stories Of Old Japan /; 12. Lafcadio Hearn And Yanagita Kunio: Who Initiated Folklore Studies In Japan? /; 13. Insect-Music: Lafcadio Hearn’s Orphean Song /; 14. Hearn’s Romantic Representation Of Shinto, The Way Of Japanese Gods /; 15. Two Springs: Hearn’s And Kyōka’s Other Worlds /; 16. ‘Weird Beauty’: Angela Carter And Lafcadio Hearn In Japan /; 17. Hearn And The Muse /; 18. ‘The Real Birthday Of New Japan’ – Lafcadio Hearn’s ‘After The War’ /; 19. The Image Of The Mother In The Work Of Hearn /; 20. Hearn: Travel-Writing And Controversy /; 21. Robert Nichols And Lafcadio Hearn: Cultural Politics And English Professors At The University Of Tokyo /; 22. The Enduring Value Of Lafcadio Hearn’s Tokyo Lectures /; Bibliography /; Notes /; List Of Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1281371769; 9786611371760; 9004213473
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa.

The East-West controversy over the significance and relevance of Lafcadio Hearn as a writer, thinker and interpreter of Japan continues unabated. Not surprisingly, the centenary of his death in 2004 presented an occasion for renewed debate and discussion by both sides of the divide. This volume, edited by one of Hearn’s leading contemporary apologists, in which he is also a significant contributor, presents twenty-two diverse essays drawn from over seventy papers delivered at conferences held in four cities in Japan in 2004, as well as at other international conferences that took place earlier. The contributors are Joan Blythe, John Clubbe, Susan Fisher, Ted Goosen, George Hughes, Yoko Makino, Peter McIvor, Hitobe Nabae, Cody Poulton and Masaru Toda. Their contributions range from Sukehiro Hirakawa’s ‘ A Reappraisal’ to Joan Blythe’s ‘Enduring Value of Lafcadio Hearn’s Tokyo Lectures’.