Supernatural Japan
Supernatural Japan examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the formation of modern literature of the fantastic in Japan as a global literary genre. Kyōka wrote some of the most famous stories of ghosts, monsters, and the supernatural in modern Japanese literature, including T...
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| author | Bassoe, Pedro Thiago Ramos |
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| description | Supernatural Japan examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the formation of modern literature of the fantastic in Japan as a global literary genre. Kyōka wrote some of the most famous stories of ghosts, monsters, and the supernatural in modern Japanese literature, including The Holy Man of Mt. Kōya , The Grass Labyrinth , and The Castle Tower . Despite the clearly modernist elements and global influences of Kyōka’s fiction, his work has often been characterized as relying on traditional Japanese genres as inspiration for its themes and literary form. Pedro Bassoe considers how Kyōka’s stories have been produced by a meeting of global influences—including Apuleius, The Arabian Nights , Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Jules Verne—combined with traditional Japanese genres. Bassoe develops the notion of “the scholarly fantastic” to describe how a set of realistic epistemologies reinforce the fantastic in Kyōka’s writings. Supernatural Japan offers an up-to-date introduction to Izumi Kyōka and his writing for students, scholars, or fans of Japanese fantasy literature and media. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1732462026-03-01T08:21:00Z Supernatural Japan Bassoe, Pedro Thiago Ramos Izumi Kyoka Literature of the fantastic Fantasy literature Horror literature Japanese literature Ghosts Monsters Fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen Guy de Maupassant Prosper Mérimée Jules Verne The Arabian Nights Yokai France French literature Tzvetan Todorov Roger Caillois Illustrated fiction Visuality thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history Supernatural Japan examines the role of Japanese writer Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939) in the formation of modern literature of the fantastic in Japan as a global literary genre. Kyōka wrote some of the most famous stories of ghosts, monsters, and the supernatural in modern Japanese literature, including The Holy Man of Mt. Kōya , The Grass Labyrinth , and The Castle Tower . Despite the clearly modernist elements and global influences of Kyōka’s fiction, his work has often been characterized as relying on traditional Japanese genres as inspiration for its themes and literary form. Pedro Bassoe considers how Kyōka’s stories have been produced by a meeting of global influences—including Apuleius, The Arabian Nights , Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, Gerhart Hauptmann, and Jules Verne—combined with traditional Japanese genres. Bassoe develops the notion of “the scholarly fantastic” to describe how a set of realistic epistemologies reinforce the fantastic in Kyōka’s writings. Supernatural Japan offers an up-to-date introduction to Izumi Kyōka and his writing for students, scholars, or fans of Japanese fantasy literature and media. 2026-03-01T08:20:56Z 2026-03-01T08:20:56Z 2026-02-28T19:53:21Z 2026 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/110237 9780472905751 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173246 eng Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies open access Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14463158 10.3998/mpub.14463158 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905751 University of Michigan Press 280 open access |
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| topic | Izumi Kyoka Literature of the fantastic Fantasy literature Horror literature Japanese literature Ghosts Monsters Fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen Guy de Maupassant Prosper Mérimée Jules Verne The Arabian Nights Yokai France French literature Tzvetan Todorov Roger Caillois Illustrated fiction Visuality thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history |
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