Melville and Melville Studies in Japan

Name: Melville and Melville Studies in Japan
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ISBN: 9780313286223

ISBN-10: 0313286221

ISBN-13: 9780313286223

Edition: 1993

Authors: Kenzabuo Ohashi

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Japan's introduction to Western literature came though American literature, as things European were imported to Japan via the United States. Prior to World War II, the Japanese read such writers as Washington Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, partly to practice their English. Today these writers are less popular in Japan, but younger Japanese scholars are turning more and more attention to Herman Melville. This book is the first English-language volume of Japanese scholarship on Melville. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in Japan, it presents a variety of attitudes from the traditional to the new. Following the introduction, the volume opens with a chapter by Kenzaburo Ohashi on…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/30/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Melville in Japan: Reception Among Writers and Critics



The Literary Interaction between Hawthorne and Melville after Moby-Dick



A Bird in an Out-Of-Joint Time: Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick



Moby-Dick as a Mosaic



Melville's "Transcendentalism" in the Context of His Time



Israel Potter and its Ideological Contamination



A Sweet Charity for Melville the Confidence Man



The Imagination of Death: An Essay on Clarel



Beyond "The Talismanic Secret": Some Aspects of Melville's Later Poetry



Dynamism in Billy Budd



Japanese Scholarship on Herman Melville


A Bibliographical Essay



Index