Lafcadio Hearn in international perspectives

Global Oriental

2007

x, 283 pages

9781905246267

1. Lafcadio Hearn, a reappraisal / Sukehiro Hirakawa --2. What does his Greek mother mean to Hearn, the Japan interpreter? / Sukehiro Hirakawa --3. Lafcadio's nightmares / Sukehiro Hirakawa --4. Hearn and the sea / Sukehiro Hirakawa --5. Hearn, interpreter of the animistic world of the Japanese / Sukehiro Hirakawa --6. Return to Japan or return to the west? --Hearn's 'a conservative' / Sukehiro Hirakawa --7. Half a century after Byron --what did Greece mean to the writer Hearn? / Sukehiro Hirakawa --8. Hearn as an American writer / John Clubbe --9. Image of 'the Creole mother' in Hearn's Youma / Yoko Makino --10. From folklore to literature --Hearn and Japanese legends of tree spirits / Yoko Makino --11. Hearn and 'orpheus'- his art of retelling stories of old Japan / Yoko Makino --12. Lafcadio Hearn and Yanagita Kunio : who initiated folklore studies in Japan? / Yoko Makino --13. Insect-music : Hearn's Orphean song / Hitomi Nabae --14. Hearn's romantic representation of Shinto, the way of Japanese gods / Masaru Toda --15. Two springs : Hearn's and Kyoka's other worlds / Cody Poulton --16. 'Weird beauty' : Angela Carter and Lafcadio Hearn in Japan / Susan Fisher --17. Hearn and the muse / Ted Goossen --18. 'The real birthday of new Japan'- Lafcadio Hearn's 'after the war' / Peter McIvor --19. The image of the mother in the work of Hearn / George Hughes --20. Hearn : travel-writing and controversy / George Hughes --21. Robert Nichols and Lafcadio Hearn : cultural politics and English professors at the University of Tokyo / George Hughes --22. The enduring value of Lafcadio Hearn's Tokyo lectures / Joan Blythe

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