Civilization and monsters : spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan /

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"Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and le...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Figal, Gerald A., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Japonés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Asia-Pacific.
Subjects:
1868-1912
Japanese literature > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Folklore > Japan.
Littérature japonaise > 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
Folklore > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Civilization
Folklore
Japanese literature > Meiji period
Folclore > Século 19 > Japão.
Japan > Civilization > 1868-1912.
Japon > Civilisation > 1868-1912.
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Bakumatsu Bakemono
  • Words and changing things: grasping Fushigi in Meiji Japan
  • Modern science and the folk
  • Modern "science" of the folk
  • Transforming the commonplace: Fushigi as critique
  • Supernatural ideology.

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