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Toward a “global novel:” An ecocritical reading of Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary
Full text linkAim of this paper is to re-read Tawada Yōko’s novel Kentōshi through the interpretative framework of the new literary category of the “global novel”. Moving from the description of environmental catastrophe my analysis will show how this novel by Tawada can represent not only the first work of this genre written by the author but, for the intrinsic value of Tawada’s literature itself, it can help shape and redefine the category of the global novel itself
Chapter Digesting the foreign. Food and Eating in the works of Tawada Yōko
Full text linkThis paper aims at analyzing the representation of food and eating in seminal works by Japanese author Tawada Yōko. The first part of this contribution will analyze the connection between food and metamorphosis, focusing especially on Das Bad and Yogisha no yakōressha, works that belong to an earlier stage of the production of Tawada. The second part of this contribution will specifically inspect the representation and the metaphor of food in the works written in the aftermath of the 3.11 such as Kentōshi, Fushi no shima and the poem Hamlet no see
Description of nine new centipede species from Amazonia and related matters on Neotropical geophilomorphs (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)
Full text linkFil: Pereira, Luis Alberto. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Universidad Nacional de La PlataFil: Minelli, Alessandro. Dipartimento di Biologia; Università degli Studi di Padova; Padova; ItaliaFil: Barbieri, Francesco. Dipartimento di Biologia; Università degli Studi di Padova; Padova; Itali
New and little known geophilomorph centipedes from Amazonian inundation forests near Manaus, Brazil (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)
Full text linkFil: Pereira, Luis Alberto. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Universidad Nacional de La PlataFil: Minelli, Alessandro. Dipartimento di Biologia; Università degli Studi di Padova; Padova; ItaliaFil: Barbieri, Francesco. Dipartimento di Biologia; Università degli Studi di Padova; Padova; Itali
Il palcoscenico della metropoli: Cento vedute contemporanee di Tokyo nella narrativa di Matayoshi Naoki
No full textAim of this paper is to present a brief comparison between the work of Matayoshi Naoki and that of Dazai Osamu. After a short introduztion on the «Matayoshi pheonomenon» in contemporary Japanese literature and culture, this contribution draws a comparison between the representation of the city in Dazai Osamu’s Tōkyō hakkei (Eight views of Tokyo, 1941) and Matayoshi Naoki’s Tōkyō hyakkei (One hundred views of Tōkyō, 2013), in order to investigate how Matayoshi’s production has been influenced by Dazai’s legacy
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