The fantastic in modern Japanese literature : the subversion of modernity /
Modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface in the fantastic. A close analysis of fantasy fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivalence felt by many Japanese towards the success story of the nation in the twentieth century. The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literat...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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London :
Routledge,
1996
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| Vydání: | First published |
| Edice: | Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese studies series
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| On-line přístup: | Elektronická verze přístupná pouze pro studenty a pracovníky MU |
| Příbuzné jednotky: | Tištěná verze::
Fantastic in modern Japanese literature |
Obsah:
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Woman found: encounters with supernatural women in prewar Japanese fantasy
- 3 Woman lost: the dead, damaged, or absent female in postwar fantasy
- 4 Desert of mirrors: the construction of the alien in modern Japanese fantasy
- 5 Logic of inversion: twentieth-century Japanese Utopias
- 6 The dystopian imagination: from the asylum through the labyrinth to the end of the world
- 7 Conclusion: is there a "Japanese" fantastic?