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1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : myths of Japanese baseball and the game's cultural representations -- Samurai baseball : the popular press and the making of a national pastime in Meiji and Taishō Japan -- Portrait of the artist as Yakyū Seinen : Masaoka Shiki and the poetry of baseball -- Coming home : portraying Japanese baseball on the silver screen -- The one constant : the literature of nostalgia and catharsis in postwar Japanese baseball fiction -- Game on : encounters with the magic of baseball in Japanese postmodern fiction -- Happy medium : re-envisioning the hero in Japanese baseball manga -- Epilogue : the enduring cultural appeal of baseball in Japan -- Appendix : glossary of selected terms in Japanese. |
ISBN |
9789888455355 (electronic bk.) |
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9888455354 (electronic bk.) |
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9789888455829 |
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9888455826 |
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