On the Bullet Train With Emily Brontė: Wuthering Heights in Japan - Brossura

Pascoe, Judith

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ISBN 10: 0472037404 ISBN 13: 9780472037407

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2019

Riassunto

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontė’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontė is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontė, as contrasted to the single (or nonexistent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0472037404
• ISBN 13: 9780472037407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile