W Puck Brecher
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Puck Brecher |
| GIVEN NAMES | W Puck |
| FAMILY NAME | Brecher |
| SIGNATURE | BRECHER W P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling rea…
The Japanese Empire
Federico Marcon. The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Early modern Japanese honzōgaku (materia medica; nature studies) publications were extraordinarily comprehensive. Some exceeded one thousand volumes, their authors variously devoting their lifetimes to cataloguing every species of flora and fauna from every region of Japan. These studies, however, have not received due attention because their contributions to “the nature of knowledge” were ultimately discredited by Japan’s eventual adoption of We…
The Aesthetics of Strangeness
Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pend…
The Aesthetics of Strangeness
Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pend…
Useless Losers
Nation-building initiatives during Japan's Meiji period (1868–1912) erected a rigid normalcy that galvanized a culture of exclusionism. They afforded broader spheres of social activity but a narrower range of acceptable behaviors, greater opportunities for individual empowerment but less tolerance for individuality itself. Backward-looking artists and writers were particularly susceptible to these developments, many earning repute as “useless los…
Down and Out in Negishi
As administratively ambiguous zones, suburbs in early modern Japan (1600–1868) became favored as secluded sites conducive to self-reinvention. The community occupying Negishi in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an apt case study of how, in violation of segregation laws, individuals from all status groups came to live together in privatized outlying aesthetic spaces. The result was the emergence of a comparatively horizontal, egali…
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Down and Out in Negishi
As administratively ambiguous zones, suburbs in early modern Japan (1600–1868) became favored as secluded sites conducive to self-reinvention. The community occupying Negishi in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries provides an apt case study of how, in violation of segregation laws, individuals from all status groups came to live together in privatized outlying aesthetic spaces. The result was the emergence of a comparatively horizontal, egali…
Useless Losers
Nation-building initiatives during Japan's Meiji period (1868–1912) erected a rigid normalcy that galvanized a culture of exclusionism. They afforded broader spheres of social activity but a narrower range of acceptable behaviors, greater opportunities for individual empowerment but less tolerance for individuality itself. Backward-looking artists and writers were particularly susceptible to these developments, many earning repute as “useless los…
The Aesthetics of Strangeness
Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pend…
The Aesthetics of Strangeness
Eccentric artists are "the vagaries of humanity" that inhabit the deviant underside of Japanese society: This was the conclusion drawn by pre-World War II commentators on most early modern Japanese artists. Postwar scholarship, as it searched for evidence of Japan's modern roots, concluded the opposite: The eccentric, mad, and strange are moral exemplars, paragons of virtue, and shining hallmarks of modern consciousness. In recent years, the pend…
Federico Marcon. The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Early modern Japanese honzōgaku (materia medica; nature studies) publications were extraordinarily comprehensive. Some exceeded one thousand volumes, their authors variously devoting their lifetimes to cataloguing every species of flora and fauna from every region of Japan. These studies, however, have not received due attention because their contributions to “the nature of knowledge” were ultimately discredited by Japan’s eventual adoption of We…
The Japanese Empire
Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, are united in their goal to recover a measured historicity about the conflict by either introducing new areas of knowledge or reinterpreting existing ones. Collectively, they cast doubt on the war as familiar and recognizable, compelling rea…
History (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)