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The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series) (edit title/settings)

by Susan Napier (?) (edit contributors)

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The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature explores the dark side of Japanese Literature where modern Japan's repressed anxieties, fears and hopes come to the surface. A close analysis of fantasy, fiction, film and comics reveals the ambivilance felt by many Japanese towards the success... read more

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In 1908 Natsume Soseki, perhaps the greatest of modern Japanese writers, published an eerie fantasy called Yume juya (trans. Ten Nights of Dream (1974) consisting of ten short visionary stories purporting to be dreams.

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