Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the "Origins of Modern Japanese Literature" has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current...(展开全部)

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the "Origins of Modern Japanese Literature" has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current...(展开全部)

Translation’s Forgotten History investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. By examining the triadic literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea and revealing a share...(展开全部)

Translation’s Forgotten History investigates the meanings and functions that translation generated for modern national literatures during their formative period and reconsiders literature as part of a dynamic translational process of negotiating foreign values. By examining the triadic literary and cultural relations among Russia, Japan, and colonial Korea and revealing a share...(展开全部)

Writing Violence is a deeply thoughtful and insightful rumination on early modern Japanese literature in its sociohistorical contexts. By addressing issues of cultural, political, and literary form in selected works from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, Atherton suggests brilliant new ways of reading and understanding the popular fiction of the age.--Keller Kimbrou...(展开全部)

Writing Violence is a deeply thoughtful and insightful rumination on early modern Japanese literature in its sociohistorical contexts. By addressing issues of cultural, political, and literary form in selected works from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, Atherton suggests brilliant new ways of reading and understanding the popular fiction of the age.--Keller Kimbrou...(展开全部)

赫伯特·巴特菲尔德，英国著名历史学家，基督教思想家，剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授，20世纪“剑桥学派”的代表人物。主要著作有《历史的辉格解释》《基督教与历史》《现代科学的起源》等。 张卜天，1979年生，中国科技大学物理学学士，北京大学科技哲学博士，现为中国科学院大学哲学系副教授。研究方向为西方中世纪和近代早期科学思想史。著有《质的量化与运动的量化——14世纪经院自然哲学的运动学初探》，“机械论的起源、演变及其问题研究”课题获得2011年国家社会科学基金青年项目资助。主编“科学源流译丛”“科学史译丛”。主要译有《大问题——简明哲学导论》《韦洛克拉丁语教程》《世界图景的机械化》《现代性的神学起源》《科学革命的编史学研究》等30余部著作。

赫伯特·巴特菲尔德，英国著名历史学家，基督教思想家，剑桥大学现代史钦定讲座教授，20世纪“剑桥学派”的代表人物。主要著作有《历史的辉格解释》《基督教与历史》《现代科学的起源》等。 张卜天，1979年生，中国科技大学物理学学士，北京大学科技哲学博士，现为中国科学院大学哲学系副教授。研究方向为西方中世纪和近代早期科学思想史。著有《质的量化与运动的量化——14世纪经院自然哲学的运动学初探》，“机械论的起源、演变及其问题研究”课题获得2011年国家社会科学基金青年项目资助。主编“科学源流译丛”“科学史译丛”。主要译有《大问题——简明哲学导论》《韦洛克拉丁语教程》《世界图景的机械化》《现代性的神学起源》《科学革命的编史学研究》等30余部著作。

This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the Tokugawa, one of the most creative epochs of Japanese culture. This anthology, which will be of vital interest to anyone involved in this era, includes not only fiction, poetry, and drama, but also essays, treatises, literary cri...(展开全部)

When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era. Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the ...(展开全部)