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On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By (author) Judith Pascoe
Format: Hardback
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, United States
Published: 30th Dec 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 20mm
Weight: 442g
ISBN-10: 0472130609
ISBN-13: 9780472130603
Barcode No: 9780472130603
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Synopsis
During two research trips to Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte is Pascoe's lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including quite varied and surprising adaptations of the novel. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe's experience as an adult student of Japanese. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Bronte, as contrasted to the single (or non-existent) English translations of major Japanese writers. Carrying out a close reading of a distant country's Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature. In this and in her previous book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files, Pascoe's engaging narrative innovates a new scholarly form involving immersive research practice to attempt a cross-cultural version of reader-response criticism. On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte will appeal to scholars in the fields of 19th-century British literature, adaptation studies, and Japanese literary history.

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A beautifully written, innovative book that brings together personal memoir and an ethnographic scholarly study of translation and transnational flows of culture focused around the reception of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. The author's experience of Japan and the complex intersections of Wuthering Heights with Japanese culture are artfully layered and integrated."" - Adela Pinch, University of Michigan