M Cody Poulton
Biographic Data
| ID | 749383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Cody Poulton |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Cody |
| FAMILY NAME | Poulton |
| SIGNATURE | POULTON M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1401-7295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
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 the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology-including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons-tells the story of how the city's literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and …
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama
This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. It opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji-period drama and follows with six chronological sections: "The Age of Taisho Drama"; The Tsukiji Little Theater and Its Aftermath"; "Wartime and Postwar Drama"; "The 1960s and Underground Theater"; "Th…
Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 (review)
Reviewed by: Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 M. Cody Poulton (bio) Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. Edited by Samuel L. Leiter. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2009. xvii, 429 pages. $89.50, cloth; $84.99, E-book. Rising from the Flames consists of 13 chapters written by 11 experts on traditional and modern Japanese theater. It is supplemented by three appendice…
Krapp's First Tape: Okada Toshiki's Enjoy
The Play Company's production of Enjoy, Okada Toshiki's wry and tender portrait of 20-something slackers looking for love and meaning in contemporary Tokyo highlights the play's witty dialogue. The New York production of this English translation reveals that in our recession-ridden times, the anxieties of today's Japanese youth are not so different from our own
A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930
In the opening decades of the twentieth century in Japan, practically every major author wrote plays that were published and performed. This book examines the full range of early twentieth-century Japanese drama and includes translations of representative one-act plays. The book looks at the emergence of drama as a modern literary and artistic form and chronicles the creation of modern Japanese drama as a reaction to both traditional (particularl…
Books
June 01 2003 A Kabuki Reader A Kabuki Reader. Edited by LeiterSamuel L. Cody Poulton Cody Poulton Teaches Japanese literature and theatre at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the author of Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyôka (1873–1939) (University of Michigan, 2001). His translations of three kabuki plays appear in Vols. 1 and 2 of Kabuki Plays on Stage edited by James R. Bandon and Samuel L. Leiter. (University of Hawai‘i …
Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka
The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan
Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka
"Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical study that traces the development of Kyoka's work from the melodramatic formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of the Taisho era. It is important reading for those whose interests lie in Japanese literature, theater, and film and in crosss-cultural theater and film."--BOOK JACKET
No and Kyogen in the Contemporary World
"Today's Japan" in Toronto: A Report
Drama and Fiction in the Meiji Era: The Case of Izumi Kyōka
Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan
Shomonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion
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Shomonki: The Story of Masakado's Rebellion
Legacies and Ambiguities: Postwar Fiction and Culture in West Germany and Japan
Drama and Fiction in the Meiji Era: The Case of Izumi Kyōka
"Today's Japan" in Toronto: A Report
No and Kyogen in the Contemporary World
Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka
"Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical study that traces the development of Kyoka's work from the melodramatic formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of the Taisho era. It is important reading for those whose interests lie in Japanese literature, theater, and film and in crosss-cultural theater and film."--BOOK JACKET
Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka
The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan
Books
June 01 2003 A Kabuki Reader A Kabuki Reader. Edited by LeiterSamuel L. Cody Poulton Cody Poulton Teaches Japanese literature and theatre at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is the author of Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyôka (1873–1939) (University of Michigan, 2001). His translations of three kabuki plays appear in Vols. 1 and 2 of Kabuki Plays on Stage edited by James R. Bandon and Samuel L. Leiter. (University of Hawai‘i …
A Beggar's Art: Scripting Modernity in Japanese Drama, 1900-1930
In the opening decades of the twentieth century in Japan, practically every major author wrote plays that were published and performed. This book examines the full range of early twentieth-century Japanese drama and includes translations of representative one-act plays. The book looks at the emergence of drama as a modern literary and artistic form and chronicles the creation of modern Japanese drama as a reaction to both traditional (particularl…
Krapp's First Tape: Okada Toshiki's Enjoy
The Play Company's production of Enjoy, Okada Toshiki's wry and tender portrait of 20-something slackers looking for love and meaning in contemporary Tokyo highlights the play's witty dialogue. The New York production of this English translation reveals that in our recession-ridden times, the anxieties of today's Japanese youth are not so different from our own
Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 (review)
Reviewed by: Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952 M. Cody Poulton (bio) Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theater in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. Edited by Samuel L. Leiter. Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2009. xvii, 429 pages. $89.50, cloth; $84.99, E-book. Rising from the Flames consists of 13 chapters written by 11 experts on traditional and modern Japanese theater. It is supplemented by three appendice…
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Drama
This anthology is the first to survey the full range of modern Japanese drama and make available Japan's best and most representative twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century works in one volume. It opens with a comprehensive introduction to Meiji-period drama and follows with six chronological sections: "The Age of Taisho Drama"; The Tsukiji Little Theater and Its Aftermath"; "Wartime and Postwar Drama"; "The 1960s and Underground Theater"; "Th…
A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850–1920
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 the influence of Western culture. This wide-ranging anthology-including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons-tells the story of how the city's literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and …
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