Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 by Mark H. Silver

Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937

Mark H. Silver

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fiction classics history literary mystery
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This engaging study of the detective story's arrival in Japan--and of the broader cross-cultural borrowing that accompanied it--argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between unequal cultures. Because the detective stor...

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