Lovable Losers - The Heike in Action and Memory

Informationen zum Autor Mikael S. Adolphson is Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge . Klappentext Offers the first substantial piece of English-language scholarship to examine the actions and the memorization of the Heike (Ise Taira). Lovable Losers contextualizes and deconstructs representations of the Heike to show how such representations were created in specific contexts in response to specific needs, and to demonstrate that the representations themselves came to create and sustain a particular kind of culture.

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• Authors: Mikael S. Adolphson, Mikael S./ Commons Adolphson, Anne Commons
• Assisted by: Mikael Adolphson (Editor), Mikael S Adolphson (Editor), Mikael S. Adolphson (Editor), Anne Commons (Editor)
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9780824846756
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-4675-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous