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On the bullet train with Emily Bronté : Wuthering Heights in Japan

Pascoe, Judith, 1960- author

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\"While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bronté'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 Bronté 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 Bronté, 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 Bronté will appeal to scholars in the fields of 19th-century British literature, adaptation studies, and Japanese literary history\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Subject: Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. / Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 Appreciation Japan. / Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 Influence. / Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 Adapatations. / Reader-response criticism Japan. / TRAVEL / Asia / Japan. / LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese. / LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
• ISBN: 9780472130603, 9780472123353

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR4172.W73 P37 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE