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Japanese Homes and their Surroundings is a book by Edward S. Morse describing and illustrating the construction of Japanese homes. It was first published in 1886 after its author had spent three years in Japan studying and teaching zoology.
Although most Western books were forbidden from 1640, rules were relaxed under shōgun Tokugawa Yoshimune in 1720, which started an influx of Dutch books and their translations into Japanese. One example is the 1787 publication of Morishima Chūryō ’s Sayings of the Dutch ( 紅毛雑話 , Kōmō Zatsuwa , lit.
In 1983, he retired from the faculty. The university's John W. Hall Lecture Series in Japanese Studies was established in his memory. [1] During the 1960s and 1970s, Professor Hall became a leader in many of the organizations that were working to build up the field of Japanese studies.
Japonisme [a] is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858.
Chartier's typical undergraduate course focuses upon the making, remaking, dissemination, and reading of texts in early modern Europe and America. Under the heading of "practices", his class considers how readers read and marked up their books, forms of note-taking, and the interrelation between reading and writing from copying and translating ...
The society also produces Research Monographs in French Studies with Legenda (imprint) and Modern Humanities Research Association. There is also an annual conference . Each year, the society awards the R. Gapper Book Prize , the R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize, and the R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize for the best scholarship produced by ...
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies for “the best book in eighteenth-centuries studies” for 1996-97. Winner of the Koren Prize awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article of the year on a French subject (for "Réflexions sur la police du monde du travail ...
The form of writing now commonplace across the world—the novel—originated from the early modern period and grew in popularity in the next century. Before the modern novel became established as a form there first had to be a transitional stage when "novelty" began to appear in the style of the epic poem.