Purloined letters

Silver, Mark.

Purloined letters cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature, 1868-1937 / [electronic resource] : Mark Silver. - Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008. - xiii, 217 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.

Cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature -- Affirmations of authority: premodern and early Meiji crime literature -- Borrowing the detective novel: Kuroiwa Ruik�o and the uses of translation -- Arresting change: Okamoto Kid�o's stories of nostalgic remembrance -- Anxieties of influence: Edogawa Ranpo's horrifying hybrids -- Coda: Cultural borrowing reconsidered.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Detective and mystery stories, Japanese--History and criticism.
Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--19th century
Japanese fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Japanese fiction--Western influences.


Electronic books.

PL726.55 / .S63 2008

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