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Gerald Figal

    Civilization and Monsters
    • Civilization and Monsters

      • 290 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. This title asserts that discourse on the fantastic was at the heart of the historical configuration of Japanese modernity - that the representation of the magical and mysterious played an integral part in the production of modernity beginning in Meiji Japan (1868-1912). schovat popis

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