Bibliograph

Ways of forgetting, ways of remembering, Japan in the modern world, John W. Dower

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Ways of forgetting, ways of remembering, Japan in the modern world, John W. Dower

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ways of forgetting, ways of remembering

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

John W. Dower

Review

Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book surveys popular tastes, the interrelationship between manuscript form and content, and the theory and poetry of late medieval authors

Sub title

Japan in the modern world

Summary

Drawing on images from late medieval culture as well as from historical documents and literary texts, Engaging Words shows how reading became a cultural metaphor in the late Middle Ages that transformed the way the Western world thought about identity and social roles."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

1. E.H. Norman, Japan and the uses of history -- 2. Race, language and war in two cultures: World War II in Asia -- 3. Japan's beautiful modern war -- 4. "An aptitude for being unloved": war and memory in Japan -- 5. The bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese memory -- 6. A doctor's diary of Hiroshima, fifty years later -- 7. How a genuine democracy should celebrate its past -- 8. Peace and democracy in two systems: external policy and internal conflict -- 9. Mocking misery: grassroots satire in defeated Japan -- 10. Lessons from Japan about war's aftermath -- 11. The other Japanese occupation

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