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  1. Sirens of the Western shore
    the westernesque femme fatale, translation, and vernacular style in modern Japanese literature
    Author: Levy, Indra A.
    Published: c2006
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important,... more

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    Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. She played conspicuous roles in landmark works of modern Japanese fiction and theater.Levy traces the lineage of the Westernesque femme fatale from her first appearance in the vernacularist fiction of the late 1880s to her development in Naturalist fiction of the mid-1900s and, finally, to her spectacular embodiment by the mod

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0231510748; 9780231137867; 0231137869; 9780231510745
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    Subjects: Japanese literature; Japanese literature; Women in literature; Japanese literature -- Western influences; Japanese literature -- 1868- -- History and criticism
    Scope: Online-Ressource (ix, 330 p), ill, 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-312) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: FOREIGN LETTERS, THE VERNACULAR, AND MEIJI SCHOOLGIRLS ; 1. Translation as Origin and the Originality of Translation ; 2. Meiji Schoolgirls in and as Language; Part 2: TAYAMA KATAI AND THE SIREN OF VERNACULAR LETTERS; 3. Portrait of the Naturalist as a Young Exote; 4. Literary Desire and the Exotic Language of Love from ""Shoshijin"" to Jokyoshi ; 5. Haunting the Laboratory of Vernacular Style: The Sirens of "Shōjobyō" and Futon; Part 3: STAGING THE NEW WOMAN The Spectacular Embodiment of ""Nature"" in Translation

    6. Setting the Stage for Translation7. Gender Drag, Culture Drag, and Female Interiority; FINAL REFLECTIONS: Gender, Cultural Hierarchy, and Literary Style; Notes; Bibliography; Index