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Title: In Light of Shadows
Condition: New
Subtitle: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka
Author: Charles Inouye
Contributor: Charles Inouye (Translated with commentary by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0824828941
EAN: 9780824828943
ISBN: 9780824828943
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 10/31/2004
Description: In Light of Shadows is the long-awaited second volume of short fiction by the Meiji-Taisho writer Izumi Kyoka. It includes the famous novella Uta andon (A story by lantern light), the bizarre, antipsychological story ""Mayu kakushi no rei"" (A quiet obsession), and Kyoka's hauntingly erotic final work, ""Rukoshinso"" (The heartvine), as well as critical discussions of each of these three tales. Translator Charles Inouye places Kyoka's ""literature of shadows"" (kage no bungaku) within a worldwide gothic tradition even as he refines its Japanese context. Underscoring Kyoka's relevance for a contemporary international audience, Inouye adjusts Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's evaluation of Kyoka as the most Japanese of authors by demonstrating how the writer's paradigm of the suffering heroine can be linked to his exposure to Christianity, to a beautiful American woman, and to the aesthetic of blood sacrifice. In Light of Shadows masterfully conveys the magical allusiveness and eliptical style of this extraordinary writer, who Mishima Yukio called ""the only genius of modern Japanese letters.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: UK
Item Height: 212mm
Item Length: 144mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 306g
Type: Communication Studies
Release Year: 2004

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