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Monstrous bodies : the rise of the uncanny in modern Japan /

"Monstrous Bodies is a cultural and literary history of ambiguous bodies in imperial Japan. It focuses on what the book calls modern monsters--doppelgangers, robots, twins, hybrid creations--bodily metaphors that became ubiquitous in the literary landscape from the Meiji era (1868-1912) up unti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nakamura, Miri, 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, [2015]
Series:	Harvard East Asian monographs ; 382.
Subjects:	Fantasy fiction, Japanese > History and criticism. Monsters in literature. Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis), in literature. Literature and myth. Human body in literature. Fantasy fiction, Japanese. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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