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Author Thornber, Karen Laura, author

Title Empire of texts in motion : Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese transculturations of Japanese literature / Karen Laura Thornber
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 591 pages)
Series Harvard-Yenching Institute monographs ; 67
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 67.
Contents Introduction : empire, transculturation, and literary contact nebulae -- Travel, readerly contact, and writerly contact in the Japanese empire -- Transcultural literary criticism in the Japanese empire -- Multiple vectors and early interlingual transculturations of Japanese literature -- From cultural innovation to total war -- Intertextuality, empire and East Asia -- Spotlight on suffering -- Reconceptualizing relationships : individuals, families, nations -- Questions of agency : raising responsibility, parodying persistence, and rethinking reform -- Epilogue : postwar intra-East Asian dialogues and the future of negotiating transculturally
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS Humanities, viewed September 26, 2014)
Subject Japanese literature -- History and criticism
Japanese literature -- China -- History and criticism
Japanese literature -- Korea -- History and criticism
Japanese literature -- Taiwan -- History and criticism
Translating and interpreting.
Intertextuality.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
Intertextuality
Japanese literature
Translating and interpreting
China
Korea
Taiwan
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781684170517
1684170516
9780674036253
0674036255