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A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice

Adriana Boscaro and Anthony Hood Chambers, Editors
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This volume presents 18 eighteen essays, written by scholars from six countries, on Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), one of the great writers of the 20th century. The essays were originally prepared for a landmark international symposium in Venice in 1995, at which 22 speakers addressed an audience of about two hundred students and scholars in the Aula Magna of the University of Venice. Topics include Tanizaki's fiction, plays, and film scenarios; his aesthetics; his place in Japanese intellectual history; his depiction of the West; his use of humor; and film adaptations of his works. In 1964 Tanizaki was elected to honorary membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the first Japanese to be so honored; and it is widely believed that he was being considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • The Colors of Shadows
  • The West as Other
  • Prefacing "Sorrows of a Heretic"
  • The Maternal Landscape of "Longing for Mother"
  • Eroticism, Grotesquerie, and Nonsense in Taishō Japan: Tanizaki's Response to Modern and Contemporary Culture
  • The Plays of Tanizaki
  • Tanizaki and the Shinkabuki
  • The Literary Link: Tanizaki and the Pure Film Movement
  • The Double Face of Writing
  • Tanizaki's Art of Storytelling
  • The Function of Source References in Arrowroot
  • Presentiments
  • The Makioka Sisters as an Emaki
  • The Makioka Sisters as a Political Novel
  • Illness, Disease, and Medicine in Three Novels by Tanizaki
  • In Pursuit of the Prints of Those Feet
  • Comic Mischief
  • The Film Adaptations
  • Chronology of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
  • Contributors
  • Index
Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program
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Published: 1999
Publisher: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-939512-90-4 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-90216-3 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-03838-1 (paper)
Series
  • Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
Subject
  • Asian Studies:Japan
  • Literary Studies:20th Century Literature
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