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Author:

Kawakami, Akane.

Title:

Travellers' visions : French literary encounters with Japan, 1881-2004 / Akane Kawakami.

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

205 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Japan--In literature.
Japan--Foreign public opinion, French.
Littérature française--19e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature française--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Littérature française--Influence japonaise.
Japon dans la littérature.
Japon--Opinion publique française.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Modes of travel, modes of seeing -- Travels through objects : Marcel Proust, Edmond de Goncourt, Pierre Loti -- Journalists and barbarians : Anatole France, Claude Farrère, Henri Michaux -- Walking towards Japan : Paul Claudel's co-naissance of the East -- Postwar travellers and photographic writing : Roland Barthes, Michel Butor, Gérard Macé -- Textual worlds.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 4

ISBN:

9780853237303 (pbk.)
0853237301 (pbk.)
9780853238119 (hbk.)
0853238111 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61260300

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)