Samurai with telephones : anachronism in Japanese literature /

What is going on when a graphic novel has a twelfth-century samurai pick up a telephone to make a call, or a play has an ancient aristocrat teaching in a present-day schoolroom? Rather than regarding such anachronisms as errors, Samurai with Telephones develops a theory of how texts can use differen...

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Main Author: Smith, Christopher (Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Series:Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies.
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Online Access:CONNECT