Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater

J. Scott Miller

doi:10.5771/9781538124420

Summary

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the Western world were soon adapted and translated into Japanese. The combination of the rich storytelling tradition of Japan with the realism and modernism of the West produced some of the greatest literature of the modern age.

Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Japanese literature.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-2441-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-2442-0
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 229
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Editor’s Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Reader’s Note No access
5. Map No access
6. Chronology No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
THE DICTIONARY No access Pages 9 - 178
Bibliography No access Pages 179 - 228
About the Author No access Pages 229 - 229