The uses of memory : the critique of modernity in the fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō / Timothy J. Van Co...
The uses of memory : the critique of modernity in the fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō / Timothy J. Van Co...
The uses of memory : the critique of modernity in the fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
Call Numbers
N895.6342/3
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Literary memory in modernity -- 2. A thousand coins of gold -- 3. The mind of a prostitute -- 4. Happiness foreclosed -- 5. Subjection in the Yoshiwara -- 6. Fantasies of success.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"Timothy J. Van Compernolle investigates the social dimensions of Ichiyo's artistic imagination and argues that she creatively reworked the Japanese literary tradition in order to understand, confront, and critique the emerging modernity of the Meiji period. For Ichiyo, the classical canon was a reservoir of tropes and paradigms that could be resha...
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The uses of memory : the critique of modernity in the fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 275.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Notes: p. 219-240.
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N895.6342/3
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74VKK04a0V5O
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0674022726 (hbk.) :
9780674022720 (hbk.) :
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895.6342
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991021993249702626
