John Pierre Mertz
Biographic Data
| ID | 8792910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Pierre Mertz |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Pierre |
| FAMILY NAME | Mertz |
| SIGNATURE | MERTZ J P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Tokyo Anthology
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 …
Poison Woman
Reviewed by: Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture John Mertz (bio) Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture. By Christine L. Marran. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007. xxv, 220 pages. $67.50, cloth; $22.50, paper. The term “poison woman” (dokufu) was applied generically to several Japanese women in the late 1870s who had poisoned or otherwise dispatched their husbands …
Novel Japan
Novel Japan interrogates the mechanisms by which literary narrative was transformed into national discourse in early Meiji Japan. By elucidating the interplay between popular fiction and its political and economic contexts, Mertz shows how ideas of nationhood were often the incidental result of conflicting projects of modernization and literary representation. To illustrate these mechanisms, the author explores cultural phenomena such as crime tr…
Novel Japan
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Novel Japan
Novel Japan
Novel Japan interrogates the mechanisms by which literary narrative was transformed into national discourse in early Meiji Japan. By elucidating the interplay between popular fiction and its political and economic contexts, Mertz shows how ideas of nationhood were often the incidental result of conflicting projects of modernization and literary representation. To illustrate these mechanisms, the author explores cultural phenomena such as crime tr…
Poison Woman
Reviewed by: Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture John Mertz (bio) Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture. By Christine L. Marran. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007. xxv, 220 pages. $67.50, cloth; $22.50, paper. The term “poison woman” (dokufu) was applied generically to several Japanese women in the late 1870s who had poisoned or otherwise dispatched their husbands …
A Tokyo Anthology
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 …
Japanese History and Culture (4 works) · History (3 works) · Meiji period (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · 1868-1912 (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Asian - General (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)