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
Main Author: Figal, Gerald A., 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Japonés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Folclore > Seculo 19 > Japão.
Japanese literature > Meiji period.
Folklore.
Civilization.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore > Japon.
Litterature japonaise > 1868-1912 (Ère Meiji)
Folklore > Japan.
Japanese literature > Meiji period, 1868-1912.
Japan.
Japon > Civilisation > 1868-1912.
Japan > Civilization > 1868-1912.
Electronic books.
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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