Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 231 pages)
ISBN:
9783031111921
Series Statement:
East Asian Popular Culture
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 From Oral Storytelling to Mass Readership: The Kōdan Origins of Japanese Popular Literature -- 1.2 Popular Versus Pure: The Debate -- 1.3 Enter Shibata Renzaburō -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Early Life and Formative Years -- 2.1 Family and Youth -- 2.2 Keiō University and the Prewar Years -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: War and Postwar Experience -- 3.1 The Barracks -- 3.2 The Void -- 3.3 The Postwar Years: Destitution and Despair -- 3.4 The Friendship: Satō Haruo and the Path to Recognition -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Fame: The Nemuri Kyōshirō Phenomenon -- 4.1 The Road to Nemuri Kyōshirō -- 4.2 Nemuri Kyōshirō and Tsukue Ryūnosuke: Influences and Congruencies -- 4.3 Nemuri Kyōshirō and Tsukue Ryūnosuke: Appearance and Character -- 4.4 Nemuri Kyōshirō and Tsukue Ryūnosuke: Swordsmanship -- 4.5 Nemuri Kyōshirō and Tsukue Ryūnosuke: Female Counterparts and Character Growth -- 4.6 Nemuri Kyōshirō and Tsukue Ryūnosuke: Nihilism in the Context of Political and Social Circumstances -- 4.7 The Alienness of Nemuri Kyōshirō and the Stigmatization of "The Other" -- 4.8 Dandyism and European Modernist Influences in the Creation of Nemuri Kyōshirō's Image -- 4.9 Nemuri Kyōshirō's Impact on and Significance to Japanese Society -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Shibata Renzaburō's Other Works -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Ume Isshi (梅一枝, A Single Branch of Plum Tree, 1961) -- 5.3 Hitokiri Hanpei (人斬り斑平, Hanpei the Assassin, 1965) -- 5.4 Gokenin Zankurō (御家人斬九 , Zankurō the Retainer, 1976) -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031111914
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031111914
Language:
English
