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Author : Indra Levy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sirens of the Western Shore written by Indra Levy and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Indra A. Levy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231137877
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Sirens of the Western Shore written by Indra A. Levy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cross-fertilization of languages, cultures, and literary forms that produced modern Japanese literature also gave birth to a new literary archetype: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and use of language. Tracing the genesis of this archetype from her first appearance in the vernacularist fiction of the late 1880s to her role in Naturalist fiction of the mid-1900s and her embodiment by the modern Japanese actress in the early 1910s, Sirens of the Western Shore identifies the Westernesque femme fatale as the hallmark of an intertextual exoticism that prizes the strange beauty of modern Western writing. By illuminating the exoticist impulses that informed this archetype, Indra Levy offers a new understanding of the relationships between vernacular style and translation, originality and imitation, and writing and performance.
Author : Indra Levy
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Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Sirens of the Western Shore: the Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature written by Indra Levy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Indra Levy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231510748
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Sirens of the Western Shore written by Indra Levy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. She played conspicuous roles in landmark works of modern Japanese fiction and theater. Levy traces the lineage of the Westernesque femme fatale from her first appearance in the vernacularist fiction of the late 1880s to her development in Naturalist fiction of the mid-1900s and, finally, to her spectacular embodiment by the modern Japanese actress in the early 1910s with the advent of Naturalist theater. In all cases the Westernesque femme fatale both attracts and confounds the self-consciously modern male intellectual through a convention-defying use of language. What does this sirenlike figure reveal about the central concerns of modern Japanese literature? Levy proposes that the Westernesque femme fatale be viewed as the hallmark of an intertextual exoticism that prizes the strange beauty of modern Western writing. By illuminating the exoticist impulses that gave rise to this archetype, Levy offers a new understanding of the relationships between vernacular style and translation, original and imitation, and writing and performance within a cross-cultural context. A seamless blend of narrative, performance, translation, and gender studies, this work will have a profound impact on the critical discourse on this formative period of modern Japanese literature.
Author : Lucy Fraser
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814342450
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Metamorphosis written by Lucy Fraser and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the mermaid in Japanese and English fairy tales through the framework of pleasure. Lucy Fraser's The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid "explores Japanese and English transformations of Hans Christian Andersen's 1837 Danish fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" by focusing on pleasure as a means to analyze the huge variety of texts that transform a canonical fairy tale such as Andersen's. Fraser examines over twenty Japanese and English transformations, including literary texts, illustrated books, films, and television series. This monograph also draws upon criticism in both Japanese and English, meeting a need in Western fairy-tale studies for more culturally diverse perspectives. Fraser provides a model for critical cross-cultural fairy tale analysis in her examination of the journey of a single fairy tale across two languages. The book begins with the various approaches to reading and writing fairy tales, with a history of "The Little Mermaid" in Japanese and English culture. Disney's The Little Mermaid and Studio Ghibli's Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea are discussed as examples that simulate pleasurable physical experiences through animation's tools of music and voice, and visual effects of movement and metamorphosis. Fraser then explores the literary effects of the fairy tale by male authors, such as Oscar Wilde, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, and Abe Kobo, who invoke familiar fairy-tale conventions and delineate some of the pleasures of what can be painful enchantment with a mermaid or with the fairy tale itself. The author examines the portrayals of the mermaid in three short stories by Matsumoto Yuko, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Ogawa Yoko, engaging with familiar fairy tales, reference to fairy-tale research, and reflections on the immersive experience of reading. Women characters and authors are also hyperaware of the possible meanings of Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" and of the fairy tale itself, furthering the discussion with Nonaka Hiiragi's novel Ningyo-hime no kutsu, and D[di?]'s novel Sento no ningyo-hime to majo no mori, as well as an episode of the science fiction television series Dark Angel.Fraser concludes that the "pleasure" framework is useful for a cross-cultural study of creative engagements with and transformations of a particular fairy tale. Few studies have examined Japanese fairy-tale transformations to the extent that Fraser has, presenting fascinating information that will intrigue fairy-tale scholars and those wanting to learn more about the representation of pleasure behind the imaginative and fantastical.
Author : Robert Hunt
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Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and superstitions of old Cornwall written by Robert Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hunt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385429099
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Popular Romances of the West of England. Or, the Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall written by Robert Hunt and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book A Check List of the Biota of Lower Chesapeake Bay written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K.M. Robinson
Publisher : Crescent Sea Publishing
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Total Pages : 257 pages
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Download or read book Darker Depths written by K.M. Robinson and published by Crescent Sea Publishing . This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sirens have ripped Celena away from her collection of mer, leaving her exposed to the dangers of the open seas. As she fights to save her sister, the royal mermaid is forced into deadly encounters with anything that gets in the sirens’ way, taking the brunt of the trauma as she tries to protect her little sister and escape the sirens’ revenge. She quickly learns that the attack on the palace in Scylla wasn’t the only thing Tarni and Nir had planned—they intend to use Celena and her sister for an even darker purpose—starting a battle with the humans. When Merrick, Caspian, and Llyr try to free Celena and Coralie, they disrupt the sirens’ plans and find themselves in the middle of a war with both their enemies under the sea and the humans above the waves. As the collection closes in to aid in the rescue mission, they find themselves in a deadly siege above the surface that can only end in destruction. The Siren Wars are nowhere near over.
Author : William George Smith
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Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A NEW CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN BIOGRAPHY, MYTHOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, PARTLY BASED UPON THE DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY. written by William George Smith and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Smith
Publisher : Portal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781933454009
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Tanaki on the Shore written by Bill Smith and published by Portal Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction. TANAKI ON THE SHORE is a novel by Bill Smith. Biologist David Tanaki arrives at a research station on Maryland's Eastern Shore to study the movement and navigation of species in the Chesapeake. Taken up by the Yamaguchi sisters, who run their family's fishing fleet, he is enticed into the culture of his ancestors. Haunted by a lover and colleague whose intuitive methods sprung out of the very mysteries of animal instincts, Tanaki's own meticulous research casts him into a net of political intrigue. ON THE SHORE is about the bridges between insight and action, the past and the present, as Tanaki navigates between two women, an environmental lawyer, and a Native American activist, who are among his allies in the struggle against a corporate plan to develop and destroy the wetlands. Through this conflict he confronts the migration of his family to America and the nature of his own identity.
Author : Homer
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Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Odyssey of Homer written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the supreme masterpieces of world literature, the Homeric saga of the shipwrecks, wanderings, and homecoming of the master tactician Odysseus encompasses a virtual inventory of the themes and attitudes that have shaped Western culture. The tale of Odysseus' s encounters with such obstacles as Calypso, Circe, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, and the lotus-eaters, and his dramatic return to Ithaca and his patient wife, Penelope, forms a prototype for all subsequent Western epics. Robert Fitzgerald' s much-acclaimed translation, fully possessing as it does the body and spirit of the original, has helped to assure the continuing vitality of Europe' s most influential work of poetry. This edition includes twenty-five new line drawings by Barnaby Fitzgerald.
Author : Encyclopaedias
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Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The popular encyclopedia; or, "Conversations lexicon;" being a general dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, biography, and history. With ... illustrations written by Encyclopaedias and published by . This book was released on with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Popular encyclopedia
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Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The popular encyclopedia; or, 'Conversations Lexicon': [ed. by A. Whitelaw from the Encyclopedia Americana]. written by Popular encyclopedia and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
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Total Pages : 1066 pages
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Download or read book A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and Geography written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Smith
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Total Pages : 1084 pages
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Download or read book A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography Mythology and Geography Partly Based Upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology written by William Smith and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Homer
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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Homer's Odyssey written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
