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Miyazakiworld

A Life in Art

By: Susan Jolliffe Napier

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The story of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's life and work, including his significant impact on Japan and the world--"an essential work in anime scholarship." (Angelica Frey, Hyperallergic) A thirtieth-century toxic jungle, a bathhouse for tired gods, a red-haired fish girl, and a furry woodland spirit--what do these have in common? They all spring from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest living animators, known worldwide for films such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, and The Wind Rises. Japanese culture and animation scholar Susan Napier explores the life and art of this extraordinary Japanese filmmaker to provide a definitive account of his oeuvre. Napier insightfully illuminates the multiple themes crisscrossing his work, from empowered women to environmental nightmares to utopian dreams, creating an unforgettable portrait of a man whose art challenged Hollywood dominance and ushered in a new chapter of global popular culture.

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Yale University Press

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0300226853

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9780300226850

Escape from the Wasteland

manticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

By: Susan Jolliffe Napier

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Escape from the Wasteland

manticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

By: Susan Jolliffe Napier

Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Susan Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio’s and Kenzaburo’s fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer’s position in the tradition of Japanese literature.

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BRILL

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1684170117

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9781684170111

Miyazakiworld

A Life in Art

By: Susan Jolliffe Napier

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Allegories of Desire

Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan

By: Susan Blakely Klein

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Allegories of Desire

Esoteric Literary Commentaries of Medieval Japan

By: Susan Blakely Klein

One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. The main figure in this development was the obscure thirteenth-century poet Fujiwara Tameaki, grandson of the famous poet Fujiwara Teika and a priest in a tantric Buddhist sect. Tameaki’s commentaries and teachings transformed secular texts such as the Tales of Ise and poetry anthologies such as the Kokin waka shu into complex allegories of Buddhist enlightenment. These commentaries were transmitted to his students during elaborate initiation ceremonies. In later periods, Tameaki’s specific ideas fell out of vogue, but the habit of interpreting poetry allegorically continued. This book examines the contents of these commentaries as well as the qualities of the texts they addressed that lent themselves to an allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of the participants in this school of interpretation. Through analyses of six esoteric commentaries, Susan Blakeley Klein presents examples of this interpretive method and discusses its influence on subsequent texts, both elite and popular.

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1684170389

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The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

The Subversion of Modernity

By: Susan Jolliffe Napier

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The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

The Subversion of Modernity

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An exploration of the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. A wide range of fantasists form the basis for a ground breaking analysis of the fantastic.

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Psychology Press

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0415124573

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9780415124577

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

The Subversion of Modernity

By: Susan Jolliffe Napier

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The Subversion of Modernity

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An exploration of the dark side to Japanese literature and Japanese society. A wide range of fantasists form the basis for a ground breaking analysis of the fantastic.

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Book's by Susan Jolliffe Napier

Miyazakiworld

Miyazakiworld

Escape from the Wasteland

Escape from the Wasteland

Miyazakiworld

Miyazakiworld

Allegories of Desire

Allegories of Desire

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature

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