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Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

Book by Yumiko Iida; Routledge, 2001

Subjects:

Japan--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Nationalism--Japan

Collections: History, Philosophy, Entire Library

...and Shin Nihon Bungaku ( New Japan Literary Review ). While Shin Nihon...Shin Nihon Bungakukai ( New Japan Literary Society ) was formed in 1946...that was a sort of Communist literary manifesto for postwar Japan. 13 Framing his discourse...
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Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan

Book by Sharon Chalmers; RoutledgeCurzon, 2002

Subjects:

Japan--Social Life And Customs, Lesbians--Japan

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...Japanese Magazines, in Re-made in Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste...Women, Media and Consumption in Japan , eds Lise Skov Brian Moeran, Surrey...1991) Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the Youth , in Hidden...
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International Dictionary of Literary Awards

Book by Jane Clapp; Scarecrow Press, 1963

Subjects:

Literary Prizes, Literature--Competitions

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...May 4, 1951, awarded medals for literary achievement. Among the writers...gt; . CHUO KORON SHINJIN PRIZE Japan A literary award of the magazine "Chuo Koron," granted in an annual literary contest since 1956. 239 . CHRISTIAN...
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Women and Confucian Cultures in Premodern China, Korea, and Japan

Book by Dorothy Ko, Jahyun Kim Haboush, Joan R. Piggott; University of California Press, 2003

Subjects:

Confucianism--Social Aspects, Women--China--History, Women--Japan--History, Women--Korea--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Dialectic: The Civilizing Process in Japan On the Japanese islands, the diffusion...structures and customs had reached Japan. The literary scholar David Pollack has characterized...and Chinese forms over time as a Japan-China (Wakan) dialectic. 17...
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Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon

Book by Tsuyoshi Ishihara; University of Missouri Press, 2005

Subjects:

American Literature--Appreciation--Japan, Books And Reading--Japan--History, Criticism--Japan--History, Japanese Literature--American Influences, Twain, Mark--1835-1910--Appreciation--Japan, Twain, Mark--1835-1910--Translations Into Japanese--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Harriss Uncle Remus stories. As literary realism became a pervasive trend...began to appear in mainstream literary magazines. For in- stance...translated Huckleberry Finn, Japan had no literary tradition of vernacular speech...

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The First Samurai: Isolationism in Englebert Kaempfer's 1727 History of Japan

Journal article by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 48, 2007

Subjects:

Asian history, German literature, Isolationism, Japan, Japanese culture, Kaempfer, Engelbert, Literary criticism, Translations

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...in Englebert Kaempfers 1727 History of Japan by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace It doesnt...might be worth pausing to ask not only what Japan represents through a broad spectrum of...functions: what is the semiotic purpose of Japan as it manifests itself in the West? What...
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Oriental Translations: Linguistic Explorations into the Closed Nation of Japan

Journal article by Annette Keogh; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 45, 2004

Subjects:

Asian history, Culture, Japan, Japanese language, Kaempfer, Engelbert, Linguistics, Literary criticism, Montanus, Arnoldus (1625?-83), Ogilby, John, Translations

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...a manuscript entitled Heutiges Japan (Todays Japan). He was to die in 1716 without...under the title The History of Japan, Together with a Description of...Due to problems with Kaempfers literary executor, it was not published...
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Silkworms and Consorts in Nara Japan

Journal article by Michael Como; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 64, 2005

Subjects:

China--Social aspects, Cultural relations--History, Folk literature--Research, Folklore--Research, Japan--Social aspects

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...across the cultic and literary spectrum of Nara Japan. Once we analyze the...role of Taoism in early Japan (SHIMODE 1986 and 1997). On the literary front, much the same...the role of Taoism in Japan, see KOHN (1995, 389...
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Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 2008

Journal article by Carol Hetherington, Irmtraud Petersson; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 24, 2009

Subjects:

Australian literature--Bibliography, Literary research--Bibliography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...to be published in Australian Literary Studies. Primarily devoted to...Narrating the Other: Australian Literary Perceptions of Japan. Clayton, Vie.: Monash Asia...36; D. OGrady, Australian Literary Review 3.11 (2008): 18...
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Multiethnic Japan and the Monoethnic Myth

Journal article by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu; MELUS, Vol. 18, 1993

Subjects:

Ethnic relations--Japan, Japan--Race relations, National characteristics, Japanese--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Lee is the editor of a literary magazine for Japan-resident Koreans and has...George De Vos. Koreans in Japan. Berkeley: U of California...1981. Nakagami, Kenji. "Literary Viewpoints." The Japan Times Weekly 22 April 1989...

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In Search of Lost Japan - over One Hundred Years Ago, a Young Irish American Named Lafcadio Hearn Journeyed to Japan to Start a New Life and Became One of Its Literary Sons

Magazine article by Kristin L. Johannsen; World and I, Vol. 17, May 2002

Subjects:

Authors, Japanese--Behavior, Hearn, Lafcadio--Authorship, Japan--Social aspects, Japanese writers--Behavior

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

In Search of Lost Japan - over One Hundred Years Ago...Lafcadio Hearn Journeyed to Japan to Start a New Life and Became One of Its Literary Sons. by kristin l. johannsen...start overseas. He travels to Japan and gets a job teaching English...
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Prizefighting in Japan

Magazine article by Karl Taro Greenfeld; The Nation, Vol. 252, May 20, 1991

Subjects:

Publishing industry--Japan

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Prizefighting in Japan. by Karl Taro Greenfeld On July 16, the literary magazine Bungei Shunju...more difficult for a literary writer to earn a living in Japan than in the United...are 360 important literary awards in Japan, and perhaps 2...
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Images of the Floating World: The Idea of Japan

Magazine article by Jeff Humphries; The Antioch Review, Vol. 53, Fall 1995

Subjects:

Japan--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...shaped "the idea of Japan" as we - and the Japanese...and decadent in his literary affinities. Translator...Caribbean before sailing for Japan, never to leave. He...author of several books of literary criticism and poetry...book about "The Idea of Japan."
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Capitalism Triumphant? the Evidence from "Number One" (Japan)

Magazine article by Gavan Mccormack; Monthly Review, Vol. 42, May 1990

Subjects:

Capitalism--Analysis, Fukuyama, Francis--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Japan--Economic aspects, Quality of life--Japan

Collections: Entire Library

...Americans feel threatened by Japan than by the Soviet Union. The...The East Asian countries, Japan clearly preeminent among them...to $19,800 in 1988), and Japan is also the worlds largest dispenser...few months ago in the Times Literary Supplement a droll vision of...
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The Literary Politics of the Nobel Prize

Magazine article by Jeffrey Meyers; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Spring 2007

Subjects:

Literary prizes--Analysis, Literary prizes--Political aspects, Nobel Prizes

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nobels equation of idealism and literary merit has bedeviled the choices...Chile, Greece, Israel, Japan, and South Africa with two...those of the Vatican (the literary world eagerly waits for the...When I challenged Espmark at a literary festival in Toronto in October...

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Let the Great Man Win; Author Takes Top Literary Prize (and on the Eve of Bloomsday)

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 16, 2011

Subjects:

Bloomsday, Literary prizes, McCann, Colum

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Man Win; Author Takes Top Literary Prize (and on the Eve of Bloomsday...has won the worlds richest literary award - proving that 107 years...judging panel as a remarkable literary work. McCann is the second...and his wife Allison lived in Japan for two years and he now lives...
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Literary Fiction

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Literary Fiction. Byline: BY ROSS GILFILLAN The...by david mitchell (Sceptre euro20.99) Japan in 1799 is an insular nation, which restricts...rituals, etiquette and protocols of Shogunate Japan. This is a fascinating snapshot of a mysterious...
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Literary Fiction

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2010

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Literary Fiction. Byline: BY ROSS GILFILLAN THE...Mitchell (Sceptre pounds sterling18.99) JAPAN in 1799 is an insular nation, which restricts...rituals, etiquette and protocols of Shogunate Japan. This is a fascinating snapshot of a mysterious...
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Dream-Like, Violent Stories of Women Adrift in Japan

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 30, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...slightly smaller than California, Japan has a remarkably rich literature...husband, who supported her literary aspirations, she found the...four-volume self-selected literary works, and that the author...Japanese literature who lives in Japan. Her most recent book is...
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Swansea Turns a Fresh, Young Page in Major Literary Prizes

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 22, 2006

Subjects:

Thomas, Dylan--Achievements and awards

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Fresh, Young Page in Major Literary Prizes. Byline: By KAREN...winner of the worlds largest literary award will use the pounds 60...I can help attract blazing literary talent from young writers all...spent two years working in Japan after her graduation and has...

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Societies, Learned and Literary

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SOCIETIES, LEARNED AND LITERARY associations of individuals...type originated in Italy as literary academies during the revival...the Science Council of Japan (1949), the Polish Academy...resulted in the establishment of literary, historical, archaeological...
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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...JAPANESE LITERATURE literary works produced in...of the islands of Japan . See also Asian...dramatic opening of Japan to the West in 1858...than the rarefied literary language used by...government censored literary expression it considered...fiction in postwar Japan has been fed by the...
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China

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...conference was unable to prevent Japan from being awarded the Shandong...Washington Conference (1921 22), Japan finally agreed to withdraw its...prominent in the burgeoning literary renaissance, began a movement...where they settled in Shaanxi. Japan, taking advantage of Chinas...
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Asian Drama

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...cent. two forms of drama developed in Japan that have since surpassed the aristocratic...modernized form, continues to be popular in Japan while the No is restricted to a few theatrical...A. Waley, ed., The No Plays of Japan (1922, repr. 1957); H. W. Wells...
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Baseball

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...number of countries (Cuba, Japan) in the 1860s and 70s. The...followed with fervent interest in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico...featurea 16 teams in four pools; Japan won in the inaugural year...Dawidoff, ed., Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002), and J...

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