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Ecocriticism in Japan
eBook - Ecocritical Theory and Practice
ISBN/EAN: 9781498527859
Umbreit-Nr.: 2251827
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 308 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 30.11.2017
Auflage: 1/2017
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <span><span>What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume</span><span>Ecocriticism in Japan</span><span> attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel</span><span>The Tale of Genji</span><span>, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the internationally-renowned Abe Kb, the Nobel laureate e Kenzabur, the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, and the anime artist Miyazaki Hayao to the recent TV anime</span><span>Coppelion</span><span>, a production that foresaw a devastating nuclear disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this volume extricates and discusses innate, complex values of Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.</span></span>
- Kurztext
- <span><span>Ecocriticism in Japan</span><span> provides an answer to the question, "What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?" Engaging works ranging from </span><span>The Tale of Genji</span><span> to Abe, ¿e, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume </span><span>examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment. </span></span>
- Autorenportrait
- <span><span>Hisaaki Wake is assistant professor of Japanese at the US Air Force Academy.<br>Yuki Masami is professor of human and socio-environmental studies at Kanazawa University.<br>Keijiro Suga is professor at Meiji University.</span></span>