...Earl Miner An Ape of Gods; The Art and Thought of Lafcadio Hearn . By Beongcheon Yu . Detroit : Wayne State University Press , 1964 . xiv, 346 . Appendices, Bibliography, Index. $11.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 330 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES fucius...

...Jesse F. Steiner The Japanese . By John F. Embree . (Smithsonian Institution. War Background Studies, Number Seven.) Washington : The Smithsonian Institution , 1943 . iv, 42 p. Japan: The warnings and prophecies of Lafcadio Hearn . By William Clary . Claremont, California...

... PAUL H. CLYDE Lafcadio Hearn. BY VERA MCWILLIAMS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946: x, 465 p. $3.00. Since the death of Lafcadio Hearn books by or about him have been steadily coming from American and Japanese presses. Probably every word he wrote or uttered of which any record exists has been put...

...Robert Borgen Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends Life and Culture . Edited by Sukehiro Hirakawa . Folkestone, Kent, UK : Global Books Ltd. , 1997 . ix, 284 pp. £16.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 532 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... Graduate University Rediscovering Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Legends Life and Culture. Edited by SUKEHIRO H I R A K A W A . Folkestone, Kent, UK: Global Books Ltd., 1997. ix, 284 pp. £16.50. Not long ago, I would have begun this review by arguing that Lafcadio Hearn deserves more attention, for he set...

... those who recognize that the business of winning the peace has only begun. Duke University PAUL H. CLYDE Lafcadio Hearn. BY VERA MCWILLIAMS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946: x, 465 p. $3.00. Since the death of Lafcadio Hearn books by or about him have been steadily coming from American and Japanese...

..., Transactions and Proceedings of the Japan Society, London 32 (1934–1935) : xi-xv; Koizumi Kazuo , comp., Letters from Basil Hall Chamberlain to Lafcadio Hearn ( Tokyo : Hokuseido , 1936 ) ; unsigned obituary, London Times , 16 February 1935, p. 17; Parlett Harold , “ Obituary ,” London...

...- Lafcadio Hearn. By BEONGCHEON YU. De- grated philosophy. His best chapters are the troit: Wayne State University Press, 1964. fifth, on "Hearn's Literary Exoticism;" the xiv, 346. Appendices, Bibliography, Index. eighth, on his esthetics; and the thirteenth, $11.00. which argues the integration of Hearn's...

... now associate with Orientalism in “Orientomology: The Insect Literature of Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904).” In meditations on Japanese gardens and insects and in the adoption of a Japanese alter ego, Hearn embodies how the arts can serve as handmaiden to cultural imperialism. Japanese officials themselves...

... Associa- tion, Notes on, 103 Christian colleges in China, Notes on, 447 Christy, Arthur E., Obituary, 108 Clary, William W., Review of Lafcadio Hearn, 80 Clyde, Paul H., Article in Twentieth century political thought, 100; Book note by, 436; Review of Japanese nation: a social survey, 78 Colman, Elizabeth...

... ), pp. 311 –42 . 16 Hearn Lafcadio , The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn ( Boston , 1923 ), VII, 283 . 17 Katō, pp. 320–321. 18 Torao Suzuki , ed., Katsunan bunroku ( Toyko , 1933 ). p. 142 . 19 “Japan's pattern of particularistic groupism...

... a n . By EARL HERBERT CRESSY. New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1955. xi, 305. $4.00. J a p a n : An A t t e m p t a t Interpretation. By LAFCADIO HEARN. Tokyo: Tuttle, 1955. 498. Appendix, Bibliographical Notes, Index. $3.75. 465 466 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY Japanese Etiquette: An Introduction...

... American figure who contributed to the modern Japanese transformation is cited. Not Lafcadio Hearn. Not even Ernest Fenollosa. Townsend Harris is the last American in Japan who is given extensive coverage before one comes to Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Such selectiveness would not be objectionable...

..., simplicity, delicacy, and beauty of the people similar to that of Lafcadio Hearn. He is interested in human beings and not in the politics of the Occupation. Though one's general impression is that the narrative lacks meat, it is a serious work and the comments, on a wide range of subjects, are sound...

... for Tōdai and other imperial universities just when the Meiji government was emphasizing imperial loyalty and nationalism. Kuroita was a student at Gokō when Lafcadio Hearn was one of its instructors, and Kuroita later recalled his former teacher with fondness. Making History Matter , Lisa Yoshikawa's...

... instructional guidance. (The unglossed phrase, “Kankoku this, the Chōsen peninsula that,” in “Crimson Fruit” [p. 146], for example, needs clarification for readers unfamiliar with Japanese and Korean politics.) Numerous typos, mostly of proper names (for example, Kōhoku-ku, Tsuzuki-ku, and Lafcadio Hearn, among...

... by Lafcadio Hearn, tales in Konjaku, a short story by Ambrose Bierce, and a William Morris translation of a thirteenth-century French romance. Which of these could we say Akutagawa has adapted? Other Akutagawa stories O'Brien translates are "Rasho Gate" (Rashomon, 1915); "Hell Screen" (Jigoku-hen, 1918...

... metaphor of mirrors as history.) During 1986, the fear of HIV and AIDS reached frenzied proportions in both the United States and Japan. This book inspects the AIDS pandemic and the writings of literati focused on Japan, among them Pierre Loti, Thomas Mann, Ihara Saikaku, Lafcadio Hearn, and Roland Barthes...

.... Morse, and the writer Lafcadio Hearn. This lively, well-written book deals less with their professional careers than with the personal experiences behind the public veil of their published writing. Robert Rosenstone makes no attempt to hide his own encounter with Japan as a visiting teacher of American...

.... Keene faces a challenge in explaining perishability, an aesthetic concept that runs sharply counter to the general Western notion of beauty. Keene first quotes Lafcadio Hearn to illustrate the Japanese contentment with impermanence and then invokes Robert Graves, who spoke about barak, an Arabic word...