Searching for Japan : twentieth-century Italy's fascination with Japanese culture /

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan's relations with the West...

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Автор: Monserrati, Michele, 1977- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2020.
Серія:Transnational Italian cultures ; 3.
Онлайн доступ:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvzsmcn5
Зміст:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Searching for Japan
  • 1. Cosmopolitan Possibilities in Translation: Views from the Russo-Japanese War
  • 2. Mussolini in Japan: Japanese Representations in the Age of Fascism
  • 3. Little Italy, Big Japan: Patterns of Continuity and Displacement among Italian Writers in Japan
  • 4. Madama Butterfly Revised
  • Postscript
  • Index