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- A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice
- 2020
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- Published by: University of Michigan Press
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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.
Table of Contents
- Half Title Page
- p. i
- Series Page
- p. ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- The Colors of Shadows
- pp. 1-13
- The West as Other
- pp. 15-20
- Prefacing "Sorrows of a Heretic"
- pp. 21-32
- The Plays of Tanizaki
- pp. 55-64
- Tanizaki and the Shinkabuki
- pp. 65-74
- The Double Face of Writing
- pp. 93-99
- Tanizaki's Art of Storytelling
- pp. 101-105
- The Function of Source References in Arrowroot
- pp. 107-115
- Presentiments
- pp. 117-124
- The Makioka Sisters as an Emaki
- pp. 125-131
- The Makioka Sisters as a Political Novel
- pp. 133-138
- In Pursuit of the Prints of Those Feet
- pp. 151-155
- Comic Mischief
- pp. 157-162
- The Film Adaptations
- pp. 163-170
- Chronology of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
- pp. 171-174
- Contributors
- pp. 175-177
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472902163
Related ISBN(s)
9780472038381, 9780472128167, 9780939512904
MARC Record
OCLC
1184511898
Launched on MUSE
2020-09-09
Language
English
Open Access
Yes