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In Light of Shadows : More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka / Kyoka Izumi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824828240
  • 9780824845582
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.6/342 23
LOC classification:
  • PL809.Z9 A23 2005
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction. A Literature of Shadows -- A Song by Lantern Light -- A Quiet Obsession -- The Heartvine -- Essays -- About the Translator
Summary: In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taishô writer Izumi Kyôka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story "Mayu kakushi no rei" (A quiet obsession), and Kyôka's hauntingly erotic final work, "Rukôshinsô" (The heartvine), as well as critical discussions of each of these three tales. Translator Charles Inouye places Kyôka's "literature of shadows" (kage no bungaku) within a worldwide gothic tradition even as he refines its Japanese context. Underscoring Kyôka's relevance for a contemporary international audience, Inouye adjusts Tanizaki Jun'ichirô's evaluation of Kyôka as the most Japanese of authors by demonstrating how the writer's paradigm of the suffering heroine can be linked to his exposure to Christianity, to a beautiful American woman, and to the aesthetic of blood sacrifice.In Light of Shadows masterfully conveys the magical allusiveness and elliptical style of this extraordinary writer, who Mishima Yukio called "the only genius of modern Japanese letters."
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction. A Literature of Shadows -- A Song by Lantern Light -- A Quiet Obsession -- The Heartvine -- Essays -- About the Translator

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In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taishô writer Izumi Kyôka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story "Mayu kakushi no rei" (A quiet obsession), and Kyôka's hauntingly erotic final work, "Rukôshinsô" (The heartvine), as well as critical discussions of each of these three tales. Translator Charles Inouye places Kyôka's "literature of shadows" (kage no bungaku) within a worldwide gothic tradition even as he refines its Japanese context. Underscoring Kyôka's relevance for a contemporary international audience, Inouye adjusts Tanizaki Jun'ichirô's evaluation of Kyôka as the most Japanese of authors by demonstrating how the writer's paradigm of the suffering heroine can be linked to his exposure to Christianity, to a beautiful American woman, and to the aesthetic of blood sacrifice.In Light of Shadows masterfully conveys the magical allusiveness and elliptical style of this extraordinary writer, who Mishima Yukio called "the only genius of modern Japanese letters."

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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