Research Catalog

Title

Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn : Japanese legends life & culture / edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa.

Publication

Folkestone, Kent [England] : Global Oriental, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hirakawa, Sukehiro, 1931-

Description

ix, 284 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

• Japanese legends life & culture
• Japanese legends life and culture

Subject

• Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904
• Koizumi, Setsu, 1868-1932
• Shinto > Japan
• Folklore > Japan
• Legends
• East and West
• Japan > Civilization
• Japan > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliograhpical references (p. 259-277) and index.

Contents

Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn / Sukehiro Hirakawa -- Hearn and Japan : an attempt at interpretation / Earl Miner -- Lafcadio Hearn : between Britain and Japan / George Hughes -- Lafcadio Hearn and the Fin de siecle / George Hughes -- Entering island cultures : Synge, Hearn and the Irish exotic / George Hughes -- W. B. Yeats and Lafcadio Hearn : negotiating with ghosts / George Hughes -- Lafcadio Hearn and Ushaw College / Louis Allen -- Hearn and the gastronomic grotesque / Alan Rosen -- Lafcadio Hearn's Youma : self as outsider / Naoko Sugiyama -- Travel sketches of Lafcadio Hearn / Hiromi Kawashima -- Hearn's 'Yuki-onna' and Bauderlaire's 'Les bienfaits de la lune' / Yoko Makino -- Lafcadio Hearn : Japan's problematic interpreter / Yuzo Ota -- The Western approach to Shinto : Lafcadio Hearn, Bruno Taut and André Malraux / Masaru Toda -- Lafcadio Hearn's interpretation of Japan / Paul Murray.

Call Number

*OSM 97-2681

ISBN

1860340148

OCLC

36673918

Title

Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn : Japanese legends life & culture / edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa.

Imprint

Folkestone, Kent [England] : Global Oriental, c1997.

Bibliography

Includes bibliograhpical references (p. 259-277) and index.

Added Author

Hirakawa, Sukehiro, 1931-

Research Call Number

*OSM 97-2681