James Dorsey Books
A Tokyo Anthology: Literature From Japan’S Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
By Matthew Fraleigh, Rebecca L. Copeland, Stephen Snyder, Peter Duus, M. Cody Poulton, James Dorsey, Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Howard Hibbett, Charles Shiro Inouye, Sumie Jones, Eiji Sekine, Ken K. Ito, John Pierre Mertz, Anthony H. Chambers, J. Scott Miller, Alan Cummings, Joel Cohn, Matthew Koenigsberg, Dylan McGee, Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail, Takashi Wakui
The city of Tokyo, renamed after the Meiji Restoration, developed an urban culture that was a dynamic integration of Edo’s highly developed traditions and Meiji renovations, some of which reflected...
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Critical aesthetics
By James Dorsey
"This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst t...
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