The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories

Klappentext Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre. Zusammenfassung Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Sansho the Steward The Third Night The Bonfire Separate Ways The Peony Garden Night Fires Aguir Blowfish Portrait of an Old Geisha In a Grove The Bears of Nametoko Spring Riding in a Carriage Carp The Izu Dancer Lemon The Accordian and the Fish Town The Flower-Eating Crone Blind Chinese Soldiers In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom Passage to Fudaraku Merry Christmas The Expert The Rifle Unzen The Bet Three Policemen Onnagata Toddler-hunting Mr Carp The Duel Prize Stock A Very Strange, Enchanted Boy The Elephant Vanishes Desert Dolphin Dreaming of Kimchee Biographical Notes Filmography Publisher's Acknowledgements

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• Authors: Theodore Goossen, Theodore W Goossen
• Assisted by: Theodore W. Goossen (Editor), Theodore W. (University of York Goossen (Editor), Goossen Theodore W. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9780199583195
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958319-5
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse; Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary