[PDF.96ea] Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937

Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937

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 | #3522396 in Books |  Univ of Hawaii Pr |  2008-04-07 |  2008-04-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.82 x6.14l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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|| |This is an impressive book, which casts the early history of Japanese detective fiction within the broader context of Japanese cultural and political modernity. Through his close analysis of three central figures--Kuroiwa Ruiko, Okamoto Kido, and Edogawa Ranpo

This engaging study of the detective story’s arrival in Japan―and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it―argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between "unequal" cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre’s formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth...

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