Age of Melodrama - Family, Gender, Social Hierarchy in Turn Of The Century Japanese

Zusatztext "This book's approach is entirely original. The translations are fluent and faithful, and the analysis is inspired." Informationen zum Autor Ken K. Ito teaches Japanese literature at the University of Michigan. He has a B.A. in history from Yale College, and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Yale University. His previous publications include, Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds (1991, Stanford University Press). Klappentext This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society. Zusammenfassung This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality–the battle between good and evil–to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society.

Product details

• Authors: Ken Ito, Ken K Ito, Ken K. Ito
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2008
• EAN: 9780804757775
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-5777-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures