Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Das Japanbuch
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Das Japanbuch
Author: Lafcadio HearnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Music and the Making of Modern Japan
Author: Margaret MehlPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1800647050
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Japan was the first non-Western nation to compete with the Western powers at their own game. The country’s rise to a major player on the stage of Western music has been equally spectacular. The connection between these two developments, however, has never been explored. How did making music make Japan modern? How did Japan make music that originated in Europe its own? And what happened to Japan’s traditional music in the process? Music and the Making of Modern Japan answers these questions. Discussing musical modernization in the context of globalization and nation-building, Margaret Mehl argues that, far from being a side-show, music was part of the action on centre stage. Making music became an important vehicle for empowering the people of Japan to join in the shaping of the modern world. In only fifty years, from the 1870s to the early 1920s, Japanese people laid the foundations for the country’s post-war rise as a musical as well as an economic power. Meanwhile, new types of popular song, fuelled by the growing global record industry, successfully blended inspiration from the West with musical characteristics perceived as Japanese. Music and the Making of Modern Japan represents a fresh contribution to historical research on making music as a major cultural, social, and political force.
The Old Century and the New
Author: Alfred F. RosaPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838619544
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Dr. Rosa, a former student of Charles Angoff, has collected herein 15 essays that are as diverse as his mentor's own career and interests. Literary compeers, personal friends and associates, and former students have contributed to this volume to pay tribute to this influential novelist, essayist, poet, and professor.
The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today
Author: Marion SonnenfeldPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438420676
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Fifty years ago, Stefan Zweig, who committed suicide in 1942, was the most widely read and translated living writer in the world. Zweig's Vienna was a world of bright, brittle superficialities, in which the bourgeoisie "gradually elevated the eternal business of seeing and being seen to the purpose of the existence." To break through the facades of this society, Zweig developed a remarkable literary and psychological method. In The World of Yesterday's Humanist Today, thirty scholars of history, literature, and music share their studies of Zweig and their insight into his works.
Buddhist Review
Author: Bernhard Varenius
Author: Margret SchuchardPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004163638
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This fresh portrait of Varenius presents a young German scholar, whose books on Japan (1649), the first one from a European perspective, and on General Geography (1650) were written and published in Amsterdam and led to establishing geography as a science.
Samurai and Supermen
Author: Bill MaltarichPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039103034
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Focusing on the ideological contradictions inherent in the German alliance with Japan during World War II, this book analyses German discourse about Japan from the distinct yet intricately connected standpoints of the German-Japanese historical relationship, the scientific and pseudo-scientific presentation of Japan in Germany, and German fictional depictions of Japan. The volume examines the historical relationship between Germany and Japan in the light of their alliance. It also traces the origins and development of the image of Japan in Nazi Germany. Through non-fiction texts, the points of emphasis, friction, and outright contradiction are discovered between Nazi ideology and an alliance with Japan as they were discussed both publicly and privately in Germany at the time. Finally, by examining fictional depictions of Japan and the Japanese under the Nazis, the work reveals the means by which fiction addressed these ideological issues and incorporated the historical and non-fictional arguments of its contemporaries. This book looks carefully at its connection to other historical, political, racial, and ideological thought of the time.
Japan and Japonisme in Late Nineteenth Century Literature
Author: Naomi Charlotte FukuzawaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040154468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book examines the transnational phenomenon of Japonisme in the exoticist and “autoexoticist” literature of the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the way in which reciprocal processes of transcultural acquisition – by Japan and from Japan – were portrayed in the medium of literature, the book illustrates how literary Japonisme and the wider processes whereby Japan, with its alien exotic culture and unique refined aestheticism, was absorbing Western civilization in its own way in the late nineteenth century at the same time as the phenomenon of Japonisme was occurring in Western fine arts, which were inspired by traditional Japanese artistic practices. Specifically, the book focuses on the literary works of Lafcadio Hearn and Pierre Loti, who travelled from France and America, respectively, to Japan, and Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki, who in turn went, respectively, to Germany and England from Japan. Exploring the eclectic hybridity of Japan’s modernization during the late nineteenth century, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Postcolonial Studies and Comparative Literature.
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