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Literaire vertaling --- Literaire vertaling. --- Translating and interpreting --- J5390 --- J5509 --- Japan: Language -- interpretation and translation --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy

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The present volume is the product of a joint effort made by scholars from across China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Europe. The book gathers sixteen papers devoted to literary and cultural criticism from a comparative point of view. A perspective prominent in this volume is imagology, an approach first developed by Daniel-Henry Pageaux, and which focuses on specific images in literary and other texts. The study of the image of the “foreign” in national literary traditions, for instance, belongs to the traditional purview of comparative literature. Pageaux did more than uphold this tradition. He practically reinvented it using new theoretical concepts and perspectives (in particular, semiotics and reception aesthetics). On this basis, he was able to develop a theory and a methodology that are both usable and in tune with contemporary concerns. The present book covers a wide range of topics in the study of images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature. Individual contributions deal with issues such as the genesis of the Chinese term Foreign Devil, the occurrence of Westerners in modern Chinese and Japanese literature, and the Chinese and Japanese reception of indiviual western authors and artists such as, amongst others, Oscar Wilde, Vincent Van Gogh, and Madame Roland. Some papers examine individual authors such as Lu Xun and Takeyama Michio. Others examine historical periods or literary movements. The approaches followed range from historical investigations of linguistic practices to detailed literary analyses... Back cover.

82.091 --- J5509 --- S16/0195 --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- J4129 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cross-cultural contacts, contrasts and globalization

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Japanese literature --- J5500.70 --- J5509 --- J5930 --- History and criticism --- Japan: Literature -- history and criticism -- modern, Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- History and criticism.

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Since the end of the Second World War--and particularly over the last decade--Japanese science fiction has strongly influenced global popular culture. Unlike American and British science fiction, its most popular examples have been visual--from Gojira' (Godzilla)' and Astro Boy' in the 1950s and 1960s to the anime masterpieces Akira' and Ghost in the Shell' of the 1980s and 1990s--while little attention has been paid to a vibrant tradition of prose science fiction in Japan. Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams' remedies this neglect with a rich exploration of the genre that connects prose science fiction to contemporary anime. Bringing together Western scholars and leading Japanese critics, this groundbreaking work traces the beginnings, evolution, and future direction of science fiction in Japan, its major schools and authors, cultural origins and relationship to its Western counterparts, the role of the genre in the formation of Japan's national and political identity, and its unique fan culture. Covering a remarkable range of texts--from the 1930s fantastic detective fiction of Yumeno Kyûsaku to the cross-culturally produced and marketed film and video game franchise Final Fantasy'--this book firmly establishes Japanese science fiction 'as a vital and exciting genre. Contributors: Hiroki Azuma; Hiroko Chiba, DePauw U; Naoki Chiba; William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College; Mari Kotani; Livia Monnet, U of Montreal; Miri Nakamura, Stanford U; Susan Napier, Tufts U; Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia; Tamaki Saitô; Thomas Schnellbacher, Berlin Free U. Christopher Bolton is assistant professor of Japanese at Williams College. Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr. is professor of English at DePauw University. Takayuki Tatsumi is professor of English at Keio University.

Fiction --- Film --- Japan --- J6848 --- J5930 --- J5509 --- J6839 --- Science fiction, Japanese --- -Japanese science fiction --- Japanese fiction --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- anime --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- -Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- anime --- Japanese science fiction

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J6839 --- J5509 --- J5930 --- Japan: Media arts and entertainment -- cinema --- Japan: Literature -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Literature -- modern fiction and prose (1868- ) --- Japanese fiction --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Japanese literature --- Film and video adaptations