Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature 9781351696883, 9781138045101, 9781315172118

Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature 9780824864071

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagleton’s words, "endlessly interpretable," and food, like literature, &q

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Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction 9780824855000

Christians are a tiny minority in Japan, less than one percent of the total population. Yet Christianity is ubiquitous i

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Time and Reality: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

The discussions of Church in this discerning study indicate precisely how an author's concept of time influences th

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The Origin of Modern Japanese Literature

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Translating Modern Japanese Literature 9781527539877, 1527539873

This book presents and comments on four short works of Japanese literature by prominent writers of the early twentieth c

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Spirit Matters: The Transcendant in Modern Japanese Literature 9780824864439

Spirit Matters is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary

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The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature 9780226545271

The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s again

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Conflict and Soldiers’ Literature in Early Modern Europe: The Reality of War 9781472566706, 9781474210553, 9781472566720

In Conflict and Soldiers’ Literature in Early Modern Europe, Paul Scannell analyses the late 16th-century and early 17th

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Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture 9780804772952

Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture is a literary and cultural his

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Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa 9780824864408

Southern Exposure is the first anthology of Okinawan literature to appear in English translation, and it appears at a pr

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