Silver, Mark.

Purloined letters cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature, 1868-1937 / [electronic resource] : Mark Silver. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʼi Press, c2008. - xiii, 217 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.

Cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature -- Affirmations of authority: premodern and early Meiji crime literature -- Borrowing the detective novel: Kuroiwa Ruikō and the uses of translation -- Arresting change: Okamoto Kidō's stories of nostalgic remembrance -- Anxieties of influence: Edogawa Ranpo's horrifying hybrids -- Coda: Cultural borrowing reconsidered.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
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Detective and mystery stories, Japanese--History and criticism.
Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Japanese fiction--Western influences.


Electronic books.

PL726.55 / .S63 2008eb

895.6/3087209