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Ambiguous bodies : reading the grotesque in Japanese setsuwa tales / Michelle Osterfeld Li

Li, Michelle Ilene Osterfeld, 1962-

Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, c2009

XIII, 319 S.

Englisch

Teilw. zugl.: Diss.

Setsuwa and the grotesque -- Fantastic detached body parts -- Curious sexual encounters -- Who eats whom? : flesh-eating demons and political power struggles -- The feminization of demons -- Animal spirits.

Includes bibliographical references and index

0902

978-0-8047-5975-5 (cloth : alk. paper); 0-8047-5975-8

2008043097

9780804759755

OCoLC: 698957277     

OCoLC: 698957277 (aus SWB)     

EI 5015      Ähnliche Literatur

GR340

398.20952

Basisklassifikation: 18.91 (Japanische Sprache und Literatur) ; 17.81 (Epik; Prosa) ; 17.93 (Literarische Stoffe; literarische Motive; literarische Themen) ; 17.87 (Besondere Literaturkategorien) ; 11.93 (Buddhismus)

SSG-Nummer(n): 6,25

*Setsuwa ; Groteske <Literatur> ; Fantastische Literatur ; Dämonenglaube ; Geisterglaube ; Buddhismus ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

*Konjaku-monogatari ; Uji-shūi-monogatari ; Hochschulschrift      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Folk literature, Japanese -- History and criticism ; Tales -- Japan -- History and criticism ; Japanese literature -- To 1600 -- History and criticism ; Grotesque in literature ; Folk literature, Japanese -- History and criticism ; Tales -- History and criticism -- Japan ; Japanese literature -- History and criticism -- To 1600 ; Grotesque in literature

Literatur ; Literaturgeschichte ; Setsuwa (Erzählung, Volkslegende) ; Buddhismus ; Geister

Setsuwa and the grotesque -- Fantastic detached body parts -- Curious sexual encounters -- Who eats whom? : flesh-eating demons and political power struggles -- The feminization of demons -- Animal spirits