The Undiscovered Country : Text, Translation, and Modernity in the Work of Yanagita Kunio /

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"Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962) was a public intellectual who played a pivotal role in shaping modern Japan's cultural identity. A self-taught folk scholar and elite bureaucrat, he promoted folk studies in Japan. So extensive was his role that he has been compared with the fabled Grimm Brother...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ortabasi, Melek (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yanagita, Kunio, > 1875-1962.
Yanagita, Kunio, > 1875-1962 > Criticism and interpretation.
Translating and interpreting.
National characteristics, Japanese, in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
Folklorists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Modernisme (Litterature) > Japon.
Japonais dans la litterature.
Folkloristes > Japon.
Modernism (Literature) > Japan.
Translating and interpreting > Japan > History.
Folklorists > Japan.
Japan.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Translating orality, reinventing authorship: Tono Monogatari (Tales of Tono, 1910)
  • Translating landscape, rewriting the travelogue
  • Building a discipline, building national identity: scholarship as self-translation
  • Dialect, standard Japanese, and translating everyday experience
  • Translating folk studies for children: education and disciplinary politics revisited.

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