Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology
Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937
Biographical note
Fabian Schäfer, Ph.D. (2008), is senior researcher at URPP Asia and Europe, University of Zurich. He has published monographs, translations and articles in the fields of Japanese cultural studies, media and cultural theory and transnational intellectual history, including Tosaka Jun: Ideology, Media, Everydayness (Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2011).
Readership
Sociologists, intellectual historians and scholars of media and communication and/or Japan interested in the global history of the press and its intellectual theorization.
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In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how painted screens and other visual art objects contributed to the development of some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry.
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Intellectual life in Edo-period Japan was sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honour of Prof. W.J. Boot, offers eleven essays that explore the intellectual scene of Edo-period Japan from a variety of perspectives.
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By systematically analyzing the process of female fantasy formation, this book represents the first extensive critical attempt to examine Japanese women's narratives of male homosexuality, including both purely literary works (with English translations) and material derived from popular culture.
€140.00$199.00
Shinchō-Kō ki, the work translated here into English under the title “The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga,” is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history—Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the “Three Heroes” who unified Japan after a ...
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Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten
years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.
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This study examines how various Japanese authors and other artists seeking artistic representation of traumatic Asia Pacific War experience have drawn upon their imaginative powers to create affect-charged images of the extreme violence, psychological damage and ideological contradiction ...
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This biography draws upon a range of autobiographical sources and new methods of narrative interpretation in order to discover what lies behind the ideas and motivations of Miki Kiyoshi, one of the best-known and most controversial Japanese philosphers of the 1920s and 30s.
€97.00$135.00
This book analyses the reception and eventual deification of the seventh-century poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro. The result is a new perspective on a major literary figure through his placement within the broader context of Japanese poetic culture.
€107.00$149.00
A concise, textually analytical study of the ways in which works of contemporary Japanese cinema have explored and reflected a 'crisis' in Japan's changing conceptions of individuality and identity approaching the central issue from a range of aspects.
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