Michæl Dylan Foster：Pandemonium and Parade
作者: Michæl Dylan Foster
出版社: University of California Press
副标题: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai
出版年: 2008-11
页数: 312
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780520253612
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Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines, and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese cultural imagination and offering an abundance of valuable and, until now, understudied material. Michael Dylan Foster tracks yôkai over three centuries, from their appearance in seventeenth-century natural histories to their starring role in twentieth-century popular media. Focusing on the intertwining of belief and commodification, fear and pleasure, horror and humor, he illuminates different conceptions of the "natural" and the "ordinary" and sheds light on broader social and historical paradigms--and ultimately on the construction of Japan as a nation.
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Michael Dylan Foster is Assistant Professor of Folklore and East Asian Cultures at Indiana University. 作者: 南池子 时间: 2015-10-31 14:21 标题: Michæl Dylan Foster：The Book of Yokai
作者: Michæl Dylan Foster
出版社: University of California Press
副标题: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
出版年: 2015-1-14
页数: 336
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780520271029
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Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories.
Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages. In this delightful and accessible narrative, readers will explore the roles played by these mysterious beings within Japanese culture and will also learn of their abundance and variety through detailed entries, some with original illustrations, on more than fifty individual creatures. The Book of Yokai provides a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture. It also invites readers to examine how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and how they make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. By exploring yokai as a concept, we can better understand broader processes of tradition, innovation, storytelling, and individual and communal creativity.
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Michael Dylan Foster is Associate Professor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University. He is the author of Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai and numerous articles on Japanese folklore, literature, and media. 作者: 南池子 时间: 2015-10-31 14:24 标题: Gerald Figal：Civilization and Monsters
作者: Gerald Figal
出版社: Duke University Press Books
副标题: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan
出版年: 2000-1-17
页数: 304
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780822324188
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Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the 'stuff' of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional beliefs that are overcome and left behind in the transformation toward modernity. In "Civilisation and Monsters", Gerald Figal asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912).After discussing the role of the fantastic in everyday Japan at the eve of the Meiji period, Figal draws new connections between folklorists, writers, educators, state ideologues, and policymakers, all of whom crossed paths in a contest over supernatural terrain. He shows the ways in which a determined Meiji state was engaged in a battle to suppress, denigrate, manipulate, or reincorporate folk belief as part of an effort toward the consolidation of a modern national culture. Modern medicine and education, functioning as a means for the state to exercise its power, redefined folk practices as a source of evil.Diverse local spirits were supplanted by a new Japanese Spirit, embodied by the newly constituted emperor, the supernatural source of the nation's strength. The monsters of folklore were identified, catalogued, and characterised according to a new regime of modern reason. But whether engaged to support state power and forge a national citizenry or to critique the arbitrary nature of that power, the fantastic, as Figal maintains, is the constant condition of Japanese modernity in all its contradictions. Furthermore, he argues, modernity in general is born of fantasy in ways that have scarcely been recognised. Bringing unexplored and provocative new ideas to the Japan specialist, "Civilisation and Monsters" will also appeal to readers concerned with issues of modernity in general.
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Gerald Figal is Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University. 作者: 南池子 时间: 2015-10-31 14:28 标题: 小松和彦：《日本妖怪学大全》
