Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese Legends, Life & Culture

Buch | Hardcover

286 Seiten

1997
Global Oriental Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86034-014-7 (ISBN)

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A discussion of one of the great interpreters of Japan. The Japanese have always revered Hearn and this book shows the West why he is revered. Experts look at his writings and discuss his integrity as an observer and interpreter of Japan and the Japanese.

Born in 1931, Sukehiro Hirakawa is a doyen of intercultural relations and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University. Over his long academic career, he has taught in Japan, France, North America, China and Taiwan, and famously, is the Japanese translator of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Among his extensive writings, is an important contribution to the Cambridge History of Japan (Vol. 5, 1989), analysing the Western impact and the Japanese response. Most recently in English, he has published Japan’s Love-Hate Relationship with the West (2005). This current volume on Lafcadio Hearn complements his earlier work Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn (1997).

Preface; 1. Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn; 2. Hearn and Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation; 3. Lafcadio Hearn: Between Britain and Japan; 4. Lafcadio Hearn and the Fin de Siecle; 5. Entering Island Cultures: Synge, Hearn and Irish Exotic; 6. W.B. Yeats and Lafcadio Hearn: Negotiating with Ghosts; 7. Lafcadio Hearn and Ushaw College; 8. Hearn and the Gastronomic Grotesque; 9. Lafcadio Hearn’s Youma: Self as Outsider; 10. Travel Sketches of Lafcadio Hearn; 11. Hearn’s ‘Yuki-Onna’ and Baudelaire’s ‘Les Bienfaits de la Lune’; 12. Lafcadio Hearn: Japan’s Problematic Interpreter; 13. The Western Approach to Shinto: Lafcadio Hearn, Bruno Taut and Andre Malraux; 14. Lafcadio Hearn’s Interpretation of Japan; Notes and References; List of Contributors; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.1997
Reihe/Serie	Rediscovering ; 1
Verlagsort	Folkestone
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Reiseführer ► Asien ► Japan
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-86034-014-8 / 1860340148
ISBN-13	978-1-86034-014-7 / 9781860340147
Zustand	Neuware