The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature, Treat John Whittier
Автор: Treat John Whittier Название: The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature ISBN: 022654513X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226545134 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 58190.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughout the country's nineteenth-century industrialization, a half-century of empire and war, its post-1945 reconstruction, and the challenges of the twenty-first century to modern nationhood.
Beginning with journalistic accounts of female criminals in the aftermath of the Meiji civil war, Treat moves on to explore how woman novelist Higuchi Ichiyō's stories engaged with modern liberal economics, sex work, and marriage; credits Natsume Sōseki's satire I Am a Cat with the triumph of print over orality in the early twentieth century; and links narcissism in the visual arts with that of the Japanese I-novel on the eve of the country's turn to militarism in the 1930s. From imperialism to Americanization and the new media of television and manga, from boogie-woogie music to Yoshimoto Banana and Murakami Haruki, Treat traces the stories Japanese audiences expected literature to tell and those they did not. The book concludes with a classic of Japanese science fiction a description of present-day crises writers face in a Japan hobbled by a changing economy and unprecedented natural and manmade catastrophes. The Rise and Fall of Japanese Literature reinterprets the "end of literature"--a phrase heard often in Japan--as a clarion call to understand how literary culture worldwide now teeters on a historic precipice, one at which Japan's writers may have arrived just a moment before the rest of us.
Автор: Whittier John Greenleaf Название: Mogg Megone: A Poem. ISBN: 1275830579 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275830578 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 16320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Whittier John Greenleaf Название: Poems. ISBN: 1275606105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275606104 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 20920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Whittier John Greenleaf Название: The North Star: The Poetry of Freedom. ISBN: 1275608493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781275608498 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Whittier Bert Название: Aj and the Keeper of the Dead ISBN: 0991262301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780991262304 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
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AJ Montgomery is about to do something he knows he shouldn't. He knows it's going to get him a lot of trouble, but when your three best friends are dissing you because you're afraid, then sometimes you make bad decisions-like the one AJ is about to make.
AJ isn't a happy boy. For one thing, he is mad at his mom. He's mad because four years ago she went away. She shouldn't have left him alone with his dad. Now there's just the two of them, and his father is even angrier than AJ. Neither has ever really dealt with their grief. Somehow they've confused anger with sadness. Most of the time AJ keeps his anger buried, but with his father, it's right at the surface-and twelve-year-old AJ is its target again and again. That's why he's mad at his mom, and that's why he's not very happy.
None of AJ's friends know about the grief AJ carries with him, and even if they did, they probably wouldn't care. They're just looking for a good time-like skateboarding through the local cemetery to torment the groundskeeper, a terribly deformed man they call the Keeper of the Dead. When AJ's friends goad him into a midnight trip to vandalize the cemetery and he gets caught, the police require AJ to perform 180 hours of community service in the cemetery with Mr. Hector Morales, who, it turns out, is none other than that weird old man, the Keeper of the Dead.
Nobody is happy with AJ's assignment at the cemetery. AJ's father doesn't want him going anywhere near that place; Mr. Morales has no interest in "babysitting troublemakers"; and for AJ, there couldn't be a worse punishment than being around the Keeper, who is as creepy as he is ugly. He even talks to the people buried there, and soon AJ will see him actually kiss a gravestone But a strange thing happens: The longer he works with the Keeper, the more AJ sees something beyond his scarred face and hands.
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Автор: Kanin Ruth, Whittier John Greenleaf Название: Supernaturalism of New England ISBN: 0806314273 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806314273 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
