Lafcadio Hearn in International Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Born in 1931, Sukehiro Hirakawa is a doyen of intercultural relations and Professor Emeritus at Tokyo University. Over his long academic career, he has taught in Japan, France, North America, China and Taiwan, and famously, is the Japanese translator of Dante's Divine Comedy . Among his extensive writings, is an important contribution to the Cambridge History of Japan (Vol. 5, 1989), analysing the Western impact and the Japanese response. Most recently in English, he has published Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West (2005). This current volume on Lafcadio Hearn complements his earlier work Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn (1997). Klappentext This volume presents twenty-two diverse essays drawn from papers delivered at conferences held in four cities in Japan in 2004 - the centenary of Lafcadio Hearn's death -, as well as at other international conferences that took place earlier. Contributors are Joan Blythe, John Clubbe, Susan Fisher, Ted Goosen, George Hughes, Yoko Makino, Peter McIvor, Hitobe Nabae, Cody Poulton and Masaru Toda.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Sukehiro (EDT) Hirakawa
• Mitarbeit: Hirakawa (Herausgeber), Sukehiro Hirakawa (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: University of hawaii press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2007
• EAN: 9781905246267
• ISBN: 978-1-905246-26-7
• Seiten: 283
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Global Oriental
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung