Purloined letters [electronic resource] : cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature, 1868-1937 / Mark Silver.
Publication details: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, c2008.Description: xiii, 217 pISBN:- 9780824831882 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0824831888 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 895.6/3087209 22
- PL726.55 .S63 2008eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.
Cultural borrowing and Japanese crime literature -- Affirmations of authority: premodern and early Meiji crime literature -- Borrowing the detective novel: Kuroiwa Ruik�o and the uses of translation -- Arresting change: Okamoto Kid�o's stories of nostalgic remembrance -- Anxieties of influence: Edogawa Ranpo's horrifying hybrids -- Coda: Cultural borrowing reconsidered.
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