[PDF] Lafcadio Hearn eBook

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781578063536

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A selection of writings from the author who created America's notion of New Orleans as an exotic and mysterious place

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1462900100

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This collection of writings from Lafcaido Hern paints a rare and fascinating picture of pre-modern Japan Over a century after his death, author, translator, and educator Lafcaido Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. Almost more Japanese than the Japanese--"to think with their thoughts" was his aim--his prolific writings on things Japanese were instrumental in introducing Japanese culture to the West. In this masterful anthology, Donald Richie shows that Hearn was first and foremost a reliable and enthusiastic observer, who faithfully recorded a detailed account of the people, customs, and culture of late nineteen-century Japan. Opening and closing with excerpts from Hearn's final books, Richie's astute selection from among "over 4,000 printed pages" not including correspondence and other writing, also reveals Hearn's later, more sober and reflective attitudes to the things that he observed and wrote about. Part One, "The Land," chronicles Hearn's early years when he wrote primarily about the appearance of his adopted home. Part Two, "The People," records the author's later years when he came to terms with the Japanese themselves. In this anthology, Richie, more gifted in capturing the essence of a person on the page than any other foreign writer living in Japan, has picked out the best of Hearn's evocations. Select writings include: The Chief City of the Province of the Gods Three Popular Ballads In the Cave of the Children's Ghosts Bits of Life and Death A Street Singer Kimiko On A Bridge

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781783807406

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Insect Literature collects twenty essays and stories written by Hearn, mostly in Japan, a land where insects were as appreciated as in ancient Greece.

Author : Louis Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134238932

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Extensive collection of excerpts exploring the psychological, spiritual, supernatural, social aspects of Japan. Including Lafcadio Hearn's Farewell and letters from 1894 to 1904.

Author : Jonathan Cott
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Best remembered for his writings on Japan, where he settled in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) is too often pigeonholed as a decadent aesthete or a stylist of overripe prose. Interweaving generous selections from Hearn's own letters, articles, essays, confessions and stories in this moving, superlative biography, Cott gives us all sides of the man -- the muckraking Cincinnati, Ohio, journalist of Zola-esque realism; the ethnographer of tropical Martinique, Creole folkways in New Orleans and Japanese Buddhism; the mordant humorist; and the unabashed sensualist. The Greek-born, half-Irish bohemian also exposed America's hypocrisies concerning sex and race, prejudices which he experienced firsthand in his short-lived first marriage to a mulatto woman in Ohio. Paradoxically, in coercive, traditional Japan, where he married a submissive young Japanese woman, freewheeling individualist Hearn found his "land of dreams" and felt the spirit of ancient Greece flickering in sacred shrines and groves.