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Civilization and monsters : spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan

text Civilization and monsters : spirits of modernity in Meiji Japan

Summary
"Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern or, at best, seen as representative of tradit... Read more
Contents
Prologue: Monsters in the Twilight of Enlightenment -- pt. 1. Supernatural Significations -- 1. Bakumatsu Bakemono -- 2. Words and Changing Things: Grasping Fushigi in Meiji Japan -- pt. II. Disciplining Demons -- 3. Modern Science and the Folk --... Read more
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xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher
Duke University Press 1999

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 398.2 FIG in Adult Non-fiction Available

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