Searching for Japan : twentieth-century Italy's fascination with Japanese culture /

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monserrati, Michele, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Colección:Transnational Italian cultures ; 3.
Temas:
Travelers' writings, Italian > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Civilization > Japanese influences
Civilization > Italian influences
Travel
Travelers' writings, Italian
Japan > Description and travel.
Italy > Civilization > Japanese influences.
Japan > Civilization > Italian influences.
Japon > Descriptions et voyages.
Italy
Japan
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Searching for Japan
  • 1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation: Views from the Russo-Japanese War
  • 2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism
  • 3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan
  • 4. Madama Butterfly Revised
  • Postscript
  • Index

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