Adaptions of Western Literature in Meiji Japan

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  • Adaptions of Western Literature in Meiji Japan Book Detail

  • Author : J. Miller
  • Release Date : 2002-02-08
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 180
  • ISBN 13 : 9780312239954
  • File Size : 18,18 MB
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Adaptions of Western Literature in Meiji Japan by J. Miller PDF Summary

Book Description: This book examines three examples of late nineteenth-century Japanese adaptations of Western literature: a biography of U.S. Grant recasting him as a Japanese warrior, a Victorian novel reset as oral performance, and an American melodrama redone as a serialized novel promoting the reform of Japanese theater. Written from a comparative perspective, it argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory.

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