著者:Nathan Shockey
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2019年12月10日
In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, an……続きを見る
著者:Kerim Yasar
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2018年10月23日
Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voic……続きを見る
A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her pass……続きを見る
Il Murasaki Shikibu nikki (紫式部日記 Diario di Murasaki Shikibu), una delle opere più rappresentative della diaristica femminile dell’XI secolo, descrive l’esperienza dell’autrice come dama articol……続きを見る
In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in t……続きを見る
著者:Eike Exner
出版社: Rutgers University Press
発売日: 2021年11月12日
Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this ar……続きを見る
著者:Natsume Soseki
出版社: New York Review Books
発売日: 2012年12月04日
An NYRB Calssics Original
A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of ha……続きを見る
A fresh take on the dopplegänger and its place in Japanese film and literatureーpast and present
Since its earliest known use in German Romanticism in the late 1700s, the word Doppelgänger (double-w……続きを見る
Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into the Japanese imperial ideology of "good wives, wise mothers" in support of male……続きを見る
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary cont……続きを見る
著者:no Yasumaro Ō
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2014年09月09日
Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that h……続きを見る
In four critical essays, Hope Anderson desconstructs the production design, classical allusions, literary source, and Japanese cultural influences in the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner," provi……続きを見る
Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of majo……続きを見る
What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for ……続きを見る
著者:Nina Cornyetz
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年11月22日
This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on ne……続きを見る
China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this ……続きを見る