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Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
Seller: BooksElleven, Three Oaks, MI, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Nice dust jacket and cover. Previous owner name occurs in preliminary pages. Interior pages show a light application of pencil notation, being otherwise clean throughout. Binding is secure.
Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
Seller: Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Condition: as new. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 217 pp. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index. English text. Condition : as new. - Contents : Cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature -- Affirmations of authority: premodern and early Meiji crime literature -- Borrowing the detective novel: Kuroiwa Ruiko? and the uses of translation -- Arresting change: Okamoto Kido?'s stories of nostalgic remembrance -- Anxieties of influence: Edogawa Ranpo's horrifying hybrids -- Coda: Cultural borrowing reconsidered. - This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan - and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it - argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between unequal cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese letters. Mark Silver tells the story of Japan's adoption of this new Western literary form at a time when the nation was also remaking itself in the image of the Western powers. His account calls into question conventional notions of cultural domination and resistance, demonstrating the variety of possible modes for cultural borrowing, the surprising vagaries of inter-cultural transfer, and the power of the local contexts in which imitation occurs. Purloined Letters considers a fascinating range of primary texts populated by wise judges, faceless corpses, wily confidence women, desperate blackmailers, a fetishist who secrets himself for days inside a leather armchair, and a host of other memorable figures. The work begins by analyzing Tokugawa courtroom narratives and early Meiji biographies of female criminals (dokufu-mono, or poison-woman stories ), which dominated popular crime writing in Japan before the detective story's arrival. It then traces the mid-Meiji absorption of French, British, and American detective novels into Japanese literary culture through the quirky translations of muckraking journalist Kuroiwa Ruiko. Subsequent chapters take up a series of detective stories nostalgically set in the old city of Edo by Okamoto Kido (a Kabuki playwright inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) and the erotic, grotesque, and macabre works of Edogawa Ranpo, whose pen-name punned on Edgar Allan Poe. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780824831882. Keywords : RECHT, criminal law.
Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.1.
Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 1.1.
Published by University of Hawai'i Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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Published by University of Hawai'i Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Presents a study of the detective story's arrival in Japan. This title tells the story of Japan's adoption of this Western literary form at a time when the nation was also remaking itself in the image of the Western powers. It explores the possible modes for cultural borrowing.
Published by Univ of Hawaii Pr, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 217 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.80 inches. In Stock.
Published by University of Hawai'i Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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Published by University of Hawaii, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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Published by University of Hawaii Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0824831888ISBN 13: 9780824831882
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