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Author:
Li, Michelle Ilene Osterfeld, 1962-
Title:
Ambiguous bodies : reading the grotesque in Japanese setsuwa tales / Michelle Osterfeld Li.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xiii, 319 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Folk literature, Japanese--History and criticism.
Tales--Japan--History and criticism.
Japanese literature--To 1600--History and criticism.
Grotesque in literature
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-303) and index.
Contents:
Setsuwa and the grotesque -- Fantastic detached body parts -- Curious sexual encounters -- Who eats whom? Flesh-eating demons and political power struggles -- The feminization of demons -- Animal spirits.
ISBN:
0804759758 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804759755 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)263408648
LCCN:
2008043097
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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