Purloined letters
Subtitle: cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature, 1868-1937
By: Mark Silver.
Publisher: University of Hawaiʼi Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780824831882
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Japanese -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Japanese fiction -- Western influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature; title: Affirmations of authority: premodern and early Meiji crime literature; title: Borrowing the detective novel: Kuroiwa Ruikō and the uses of translation; title: Arresting change: Okamoto Kidō's stories of nostalgic remembrance; title: Anxieties of influence: Edogawa Ranpo's horrifying hybrids; title: Coda: Cultural borrowing reconsidered.