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On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë
Judith Pascoe
其他書名
Wuthering Heights in Japan
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 2019-01-23
主題
Travel / General
Travel / Asia / East / Japan
Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0472037404
9780472037407
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DeeEDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel
Wuthering Heights
has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations.
On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë
is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of
Wuthering Heights,
including quite varied and surprising adaptations of the novel. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or non-existent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s
Wuthering Heights
, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature.
In this and in her previous book,
The Sarah Siddons Audio Files
, Pascoe’s engaging narrative innovates a new scholarly form involving immersive research practice to attempt a cross-cultural version of reader-response criticism.
On the Bullet Train with Emily Bront
ë
will appeal to scholars in the fields of 19th-century British literature, adaptation studies, and Japanese literary history.