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On the bullet train with Emily Bronté : Wuthering Heights in Japan
\"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.
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The Sarah Siddons Audio Files
English actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831) was an international celebrity widely acclaimed for her performances of tragic heroines.We know what Siddons looked like-an endless number of artists asked her to sit for portraits and sculptures-but what of her famous voice? In lively and engaging prose, Judith Pascoe journeys to discover how the celebrated romantic actor's voice sounded and to understand its power to move audiences to a state of emotional collapse. The author's quixotic endeavor leads her to enroll in a \"Voice for Actors\" class, to collect Lady Macbeth voice prints, and to listen more carefully to the soundscape of her own life.The Sarah Siddons Audio Filesis the first full-scale attempt to address the importance of the voice in romantic culture. Bringing together archival discoveries, sound recording history, and media theory, the book shows how the romantic poets' preoccupation with voices is linked to a larger cultural anxiety about the voice's ephemerality.The Sarah Siddons Audio Filescontributes to a growing body of work on the fascinating history of sound, and will engage a broad audience interest in how recording technology has altered human experience.
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