TY - BOOK AU - Hearn,Lafcadio AU - Codrescu,Andrei AU - Zipes,Jack TI - Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn T2 - Oddly Modern Fairy Tales SN - 9780691167756 AV - PS1916 PY - 2019///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - A Japanese Miscellany KW - Basil Chamberlain KW - Chita, a Memory of Last Island KW - Edgar Allan Poe KW - Elizabeth Bisland KW - Father and I, Memories of Lafcadio Hearn KW - George Washington Cable KW - Green Willow KW - Hans Christian Anderson KW - Henry Goodman KW - Henry Watkin KW - Jonathan Cott KW - Kazuo Koizumi KW - Kwaidan KW - Lefkada KW - Malcolm Cowley KW - Momotaro KW - Mujina KW - Odysseus KW - Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan KW - Pere de la Rouquette KW - Setsu Koizuma KW - Shadowings KW - The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn KW - The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn KW - The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi KW - Two Years in the French West Indies KW - Urashima KW - Wandering Ghost KW - Youma KW - Youth Without Age and Life Without Death N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Introduction --; TALES --; From Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1897) --; From Shadowings (1900) --; From A Japanese Miscellany: Strange Stories, Folklore Gleanings, Studies Here & There (1901) --; From Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) --; Bibliography; restricted access N2 - A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio HearnLafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume.Hearn’s tales span a variety of genres. Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Some are love stories in which the beloved is not what she appears to be: in “The Story of Aoyagi,” a young samurai narrowly escapes the wrath of his lord for marrying without permission, only to discover that his wife is the spirit of a willow tree. Throughout this collection, Hearn’s reverence for Japan shines through, and his stories provide insights into the country’s artistic and cultural heritage.With an introduction by Andrei Codrescu discussing Hearn’s life and work, as well as a foreword by Jack Zipes, Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn provides a unique window into one writer’s multicultural literary journey UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691189659?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691189659 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691189659/original ER -