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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Japanese literature"”.
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Türk ve Japon Romanında natüralizim akımı: Shimazaki Töson - Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar
… we deal with the reflection of this process to literature. Realism that is called as the adaptation of the world truth, appeared after French Revolution 1789 and Industrial Revolution. Realism based on Pozitivism that bring forward knowledge can be demonstrate by experiments. Theme of Realism …
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Where the Landscape Inspires the Lines: Python-based Workbooks and Digital Tools for Reading <i>Yoshino ki</i>
… explores the intersection of premodern Japanese literature and digital humanities (DH) through an innovative online platform for reading, annotating, and coding. Centered on <em>Yoshino ki</em> 吉野記 (A Record of Yoshino), a seventeenth-century Japanese poetic travelogue authored by the …
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An Overview of Stereotyped Portrayals of LGBT+ People in Japanese Fiction and Literature: Analysis of the historical evolution and commercialization of BL and yuri genres, and social practice of its consumer culture
… the history of the portrayal of LGBT+ people in Japanese fiction, starting from The Tale of Genji, a novel from the early 11th century that is widely considered to be the first classic in history, and to the proper establishment of what is known as the BL (boys’ love) and yuri genres. BL, as the …
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Finding the Rainbow World: Transnational Queer Networks and Literary Translation in Cold War Japan
… with a renaissance in the global circulation of Japanese art and literature in translation. Utilizing methodologies drawn from feminist studies, queer studies, and translation studies, this dissertation shows how Japan’s relative tolerance to same-sex sexuality after World War II allowed it to …
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De-Feminising Translation: Making Women Visible in Japanese Translation
… results from the over-feminising convention in Japanese literature, both original and translated. Female characters’ speech has been over-feminised despite the dissonance with real Japanese women’s language use, and the convention has reinforced and maintained gender ideology in Japanese …
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Of Mice and Maidens: Ideologies of Interspecies Romance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
… (irui kon'in) has long been a central theme in Japanese literature and folklore. Frequently dismissed as fairytales, stories of interspecies marriage illuminate contemporaneous conceptions of the animal-human boundary and the anxieties surrounding it. This dissertation contributes to the …
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Good to Fight, Good to Eat, Good to Think: Food Disputes in Premodern Japanese Texts
… thesis analyses part of a corpus of premodern Japanese texts usually referred to as irui-gassen mono (“tales of battles between nonhuman beings”). More specifically, it investigates texts that describe disputes between anthropomorphic foods and drinks. This thesis shows the multifarious nature …
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Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE
… literary language, and cultural contact in the literature of premodern Japan by examining the primers used to study Chinese-style literature in the Heian and early medieval periods (c. 900-1250CE). Much of Heian literary production was centered on kanbun: "Chinese-style" writing that resembled …
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Valences of Vengeance: The Moral Imagination of Early Modern Japanese Vendetta Fiction
… with the fundamental values of early modern Japanese moral ideology, vendetta constitutes a unique point of access to the early modern moral imagination. I argue that this unique status enabled the literary topos of vendetta to speak powerfully to the desires and anxieties of early modern …
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Strategies of Adaptation: Constructing <i>Gōkan</i> in Late-Edo Japan
… itself, the subject of a significant body of Japanese-language scholarship, but which has received markedly less attention in English. Through three detailed case studies given a chapter each—<i>Kabuki no hana botan-dōrō</i> (1810), <i>Kantan shokoku monogatari</i> (1834–56), and <i>Irohagura …
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Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn
<p>Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn</p><p>This dissertation explores body aesthetics and anxieties through analyses of contemporary fiction by women. Framed in terms of "the male gaze," it analyzes the ways in which women writing today negotiate and reappropriate the …
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Queer subtext and fanmade text in Maria-sama ga miteru
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-04-06 without embargo terms
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Envisioning Women Writers: Female Authorship and the Cultures of Publishing and Translation in Early 20th Century Japan
… 1910s that the journalistic category of "women's literature" (joryû bungaku) emerged within the dominant literary mode of Naturalism, as the field of literature itself achieved a respectable cultural status after the end of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-5). Through a close textual analysis of …
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Anamnesis, myth, and the political in selected works of Murakami Haruki
… thesis analyzes two novels of the contemporary Japanese author Murakami Haruki. It seeks to dispel the premise advanced by Ōe Kenzaburo, a Nobel Laureate in Literature, which regards Murakami as an inferior writer. Murakami's fast paced style bears resemblance to Western authors and seemingly …
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Literary Writing, Print Media, and Urban Space in Modern Japan, 1895-1933
… how, why, and for whom they created works of literature and social thought. This dissertation examines a selection of fictional and critical texts from the turn of the century through the 1930s to demonstrate how mass-produced typographic media both served to produce mass consumer society in …
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Waka After the Kokinshu: Anatomy of a Cultural Phenomenon
… to the monjo keikoku theory (the idea that literature was useful for government), the appearance of the "poetry specialists" (senmon kajin), and the role of women as patrons of waka. This chapter also sketches a first, tentative profile of the waka public, and identifies some of the areas …
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Oe no Masafusa and the Convergence of the "Ways": The Twilight of Early Chinese Literary Studies and the Rise of Waka Studies in the Long Twelfth Century in Japan
… studies), specifically the Kidendô (history and literature) curriculum that flourished at the State Academy in the Heian period (794-1185), and kagaku (waka studies), which emerged in the twelfth century. I trace the concept of "way" (michi) as it evolved from the Chinese studies curriculum to an …
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Fissured Languages of Empire: Gender, Ethnicity, and Literature in Japan and Korea, 1930s-1950s
This dissertation investigates how Japanese-language literature by Korean writers both emerged out of and stood in opposition to discourses of national language, literature, and identity. The project is twofold in nature. First, I examine the rise of Japanese-language literature by Korean colonial …
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Changing the image: the presentation of Christianity in Yu Guan and Deep River
… by Chinese writer Xu Dishan (1893-1941) and Japanese writer Endo Shusaku (1923-1996), Yu Guan and Deep River. As a religion brought by Western missionaries, Christianity is considered “foreign” in both writers’ contexts and is not welcomed. As the two writers in the discussion are both …
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Shunpon: Intertextuality, Humour, and Sexual Education in Early-modern Japan
… the sexually explicit rewritings of earlier literature in early-modern shunpon production. The term shunpon is used today by scholars to refer to books containing shunga (images displaying explicit sexual content), which were produced in Japan throughout the Edo period (1600-1868). Despite …
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