Ken K Ito

An Age of Melodrama

Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-Of-The-Century Japanese Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780804757775
• ISBN-10: 0804757771
• Artikelnr.: 23360757

Autorenporträt

Ken K. Ito teaches Japanese literature at the University of Michigan. He has a B.A. in history from Yale College, and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Yale University. His previous publications include, Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds (1991, Stanford University Press).