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Tale of Genji

Books on: japanese novel

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Reading against Culture: Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese Novel

Book by David Pollack; Cornell University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Culture In Literature, Ideology And Literature, Japan--Civilization--Philosophy, Japanese Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...only succeeded in bringing the novel close to being a secondhand...dialogue from Riichi Yokomitsus novel Travel-Weariness Ryoshu...language problems, he says, the Japanese novel has tended to play it...up to the very limits of the Japanese language itself. The unreasonable...
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Modern Japanese Novels and the West

Book by Donald Keene; University of Virginia Press, 1961

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Japanese Fiction--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Yano Ryukei, 1 an historical novel about Epaminondas of Thebes...auspicious subject for the fledgling Japanese literary movement, but the...Epaminondas a model for the Japanese. When this novel was dramatized...characters wore traditional Japanese garb and not the togas of ancient...
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Made in Japan and Other Japanese "Business Novels"

Book by Tamae K. Prindle; M.E. Sharpe, 1989

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Business Enterprises--Fiction, Japan--Social Life And Customs--Fiction, Short Stories, Japanese--Translations Into English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...which include: Kabutocho, a Novel 1966 , Cornering Kaijime 1966...these, Shimizu has written novels on banks, the automobile industry...Artery Archipelago received the Japanese Suspense Novel Writers Association Prize of...in 1939. After majoring in Japanese literature at Waseda University...
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Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity

Book by Tomi Suzuki; Stanford University, 1996

Subjects:

Autobiographical fiction, Japanese--History and criticism, Japanese fiction--1868---History and criticism, Literature, Comparative--Japanese and Western, Literature, Comparative--Western and Japanese, Shiga, Naoya--1883-1971--Criticism and interpretation, Tanizaki, Junichiro--1886-1965--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...features did this I-novel meta-narrative have...present perception of Japanese literary texts? As I...Western novel with its Japanese counterpart. As we shall...the early 1920s, "I-novel" was always a value...life" but also to Japanese society--one writer...
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Topographies of Japanese Modernism

Book by Seiji M. Lippit; Columbia University Press, 2002

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Japanese Fiction--Showa Period, 1926-1989--History And Criticism, Japanese Fiction--Taisho Period, 1912-1926--History And Criticism, Modernism (Literature)--Japan

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...debate over the I-novel, for example...borderlines of Japanese culture. As Tomi...furusato of the novel indirectly suggests...exposition of the I-novel kept trying to...unique product of Japanese culture has been...a narrative of Japanese

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Journal Articles on: japanese novel

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Shimizu Ikkō0's "Silver Sanctuary" (Gin No Seiiki): a Japanese Business Novel

Journal article by Tamae K. Prindle; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 17, 1985

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Asia

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...Gin no seiiki): A Japanese Business Novel translated and with...is the pioneer of Japanese "business novels" ( kigyo shosetsu...notes, the business novel is "young"; they have only been in the Japanese market since the mid...The mainstay of these novels is their "immediacy...
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Reading the Japanese Car as a Postcolonial Novel

Journal article by Enda Duffy; College Literature, Vol. 20, 1993

Subjects:

American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

Reading the Japanese Car as a Postcolonial Novel Enda Duffy Wesleyan University...the cultural significance of the Japanese car in contemporary American society...taking place was a critique of the Japanese car as a postcolonial novel. At...
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The Rise of the Best-Celler: Japanese Youth Are Wild about Cell Phone Novels, Raising Questions about Our Own Resistance to the Technology as a Learning Tool

Journal article by Geoffrey H. Fletcher; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 35, 2008

Subjects:

E-books--Reports, E-books--Usage, Wireless communication systems--Economic aspects, Wireless communication systems--Reports, Wireless communication systems--Services, Wireless communication systems--Technology application, Wireless communications services--Economic aspects, Wireless communications services--Reports, Wireless communications services--Technology application

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Rise of the Best-Celler: Japanese Youth Are Wild about Cell...novels are now listed on the Japanese website Maho no i-rando...who has studied cell phone novels, says of the new generation of Japanese: "Its not that they had...whether or not a cell phone novel written on a computer and...
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A Cross-cultural Approach to Jane Austen's Novels

Journal article by Miyuki Amano; Hecate, Vol. 34, 2008

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English language, Japanese culture, Novels, Reading

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...original and the Japanese translation. When...adaptations of the novels, they realise...defence of the novel as a form and a...obsession with gothic novels, especially Ann...world of the gothic novel. Since the gothic...useful in helping Japanese students to understand...Nevertheless, his novels have some characteristics...of Sosekis first novel, Wagahai wa neko...in order to lead Japanese students to a better...
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Journey to the West

Journal article by J. S. A Elisonas; Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 34, 2007

Subjects:

Asian history, Chijiwa, Miguel, Christianity, Entertainers, Hara, Martinho, Ito, Mancio, Japan, Japanese culture, Nakaura, Juliao, Novels, Religious missions, Valignana, Alexandro

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Montefalco a visit. What was billed as a Japanese embassy was passing through. Four teenage...colloquy among them and two of their Japanese Christian friends (actually, it is...properly speaking, at the time of the Japanese youths call at her shrine, as her case...

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Magazine Articles on: japanese novel

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RELIGION & THE MODERN NOVEL : What My Japanese Students Helped Me See

Magazine article by Mark Krupnick; Commonweal, Vol. 127, May 5, 2000

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Brodie, Jean--Criticism, interpretation, etc., College teachers--Personal narratives, English literature--Study and teaching, McCarthy, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Religion and literature--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

RELIGION THE MODERN NOVEL : What my Japanese students helped me see...English literature to Japanese adults who come to the...residues. If, as with the Japanese students, you have little...miss the force of her novels depiction of a total...
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On the Side of the Egg: What Does Haruki Murakami Mean to the Japanese?

Magazine article by Auke Hulst; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, November 7, 2011

Subjects:

1Q84 (Novel), Japanese culture--Portrayals, Murakami, Haruki--Works, Novelists--Works

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...westerners every day. The Japanese, she says, are inflexible...murder scene in Murakamis new novel, 1Q84. The main reason for...Kott thinks, is the way Japanese society has started to catch...fictional world evoked in the novels. "He writes about roofless...and loose family ties. Un-Japanese individuals. Traditionally...
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Paranoid Android: A Reissue of Philip K Dick's Finest Novel Shows Him to Be a Writer Not So Much of Science Fiction, as of a Kind of Hallucinatory Metaphysics

Magazine article by John Gray; New Statesman, Vol. 138, October 12, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, The Man in the High Castle (Novel)--Book reviews

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...Reissue of Philip K Dicks Finest Novel Shows Him to Be a Writer Not...philosopher, not a novelist; my novel and story-writing ability...then divided into German and Japanese zones, with a racist regime...concerns the attempt by the Japanese trade commissioner in San Francisco...
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The Social Cell: What Do Debutante Balls, the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Ponzi Schemes and Doubting Clergy All Have in Common?

Magazine article by Daniel Dennett; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 140, December 19, 2011

Subjects:

Cells (Biology)--Portrayals, Cells (Biology)--Social aspects, Cells--Portrayals, Cells--Social aspects, Clergy--Portrayals, Clergy--Social aspects, Debutantes--Portrayals, Evolutionary biology--Social aspects, Japanese tea ceremony--Portrayals, Ponzi schemes--Social aspects

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...accidents into trends and then novel structures. But there...engineer to create the Japanese tea ceremony, or debutante...these phenomena. Will the Japanese tea ceremony morph into...recent destratifications of Japanese society lead to the disintegration...
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Seduction Line: "What a Tremendous Eye He Has," Said David Bowie of the Film-Maker Nagisa Oshima after Working with Him on Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey Celebrates the Japanese Director's Eroticism and Wicked Sense of Humour

Magazine article by Ryan Gilbey; New Statesman, Vol. 138, September 14, 2009

Subjects:

Bowie, David--Works, Filmmakers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Filmmakers--Works, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Motion picture)--Personalities, Motion picture actors and actresses--Works, Movie actors--Works, Movie directors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Movie directors--Works, Oshima, Nagisa--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Oshima, Nagisa--Works

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...Mr Lawrence. Ryan Gilbey Celebrates the Japanese Directors Eroticism and Wicked Sense of Humour...preparing an adaptation of Laurens van der Posts novel The Seed and the Sower, set in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java during the...

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Newspaper Articles on: japanese novel

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SLAVES OF THE CRUEL EMPEROR; DAY ONE OF A PoW'S HARROWING DIARY OF TORTURE; Japanese Guards Enjoyed Beating Us

Newspaper article by Eric Lomax; The Mirror (London, England), May 30, 1998

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

...broke out in the camp, the Japanese railway administration found a novel way of containing the epidemic...the tent in time to see two Japanese guards carry a feverish man...with long windows. Several Japanese officers sat along a table...
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My Book Wasn't Meant to Be an Assassination of Brian Clough; Writer of the Moment David Peace Should Be Celebrating after Last Night's Premiere of the Damned United, Based on His Controversial Novel about the Legendary Manager. Instead, He Tells Us, He's Still Trying to Clear His Name

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 19, 2009

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Peace, David

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

...very clearly a novel," he says cautiously...has written eight novels in 10 years, including...wont work on his Japanese TV. Yet David...great Northern novel but on the small...1980 the Ripper novels were very hard...married to his Japanese girlfriend...violence in films and novels when its presented...Peaces new novel, the second of his Japanese books, Tokyo Occupied...
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Tea and Japanese 'Tales' of Pleasing Complexity

Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, December 15, 1996

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

...by no means limited to the Japanese, but often they seem to do...exhibit, "Telling Tales in Japanese Art," the range of this storytelling...who wrote the worlds first novel ("The Tale of Genji"). The Japanese talent for telling even complex...
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Japanese Hit-Man Film Adds Spice to the Genre; McQueen, Dean Sets Released

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 2, 2005

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

Japanese Hit-Man Film Adds Spice...based on Yukio Yamanouchis novel, actually predates those...informative commentary by leading Japanese cinema scholar Tom Mes, a...and the medical-themed Japanese import Infection (Lions Gate...
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Turning Japanese. Suzanne Shaw Sees the Hit Movie and Tries Its Stunning Look

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 22, 2006

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

Turning Japanese. Suzanne Shaw Sees the Hit Movie and...the strange and exotic world of the Japanese geisha has always fascinated us Westerners...Memoirs Of A Geisha, based on a bestselling novel by Arthur Golden, has revived interest...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: japanese novel

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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...profound effect on the modern Japanese novel with his critical study...1864 1909), was the first novel written in colloquial language. The "I novel," a type of personal semifictitious...naturalist and proletarian novels. Natsume Soseki and Mori Ogai...tale literature and folklore. Japanese literature suffered a slump...
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Novel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...knights. Thus, the modern novel is rooted in two traditions...been the theme of many great novels and the historical development of the novel continually reflects this dual...by Lady Murasaki, depicts Japanese court life, whereas Amadis...of chivalry. Early European Novels The realistic and romantic...
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Shimazaki Toson

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...in the establishment of a new Japanese verse form, Toson later turned...schoolteacher, is considered the first Japanese naturalist novel. Subsequent works were somewhat...life. See J. A. Walker, The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and...
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Enchi, Fumiko

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...daughter of a well-known Japanese literary scholar, she first...theater, later turning to novels and short stories. Enchis...numerous awards. Her modern Japanese translation of the renowned classical Japanese novel The Tale of Genji received...
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Po ChÜ-I

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...on the murder of his concubine by rebels. The poem figures prominently in The Tale of Genji, the 10th-century Japanese novel by Murasaki Shikibu; Pos work gained wide popularity throughout East Asia. He continued to write despite partial...

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