Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures

Auteur

Shirah Malka Cohen is currently a research fellow at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa and a lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto where she is based. Dr. Cohen has published articles in academic journals on the subject of Japanese and Hebrew literatures in English, Japanese, and Hebrew, and also works as a translator.

Texte du rabat

Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th century Japanese and Hebrew literatures.

Contenu

Introduction

Chapter One - A Tale of Two Organs: The Use of Musical Forms in the Works of Gershon Shofman and Shimazaki T son

Chapter Two - Soirée à l'Opéra: Nagai Kaf and Leah Goldberg Go to the Opera

Chapter Three - The Music of Mechanical Ghosts: Literature Meets the Gramophone and the Radio

Chapter Four - Mechanical Music, Horror, and the Modern Dance Macabre: A Cyclical View of History as a Coping Mechanism in Ya'akov Horowiz's 'Muzika modernit'

Chapter Five - The Music of the Unconscious: Music and the Literary Expression of the Self

Conclusion

Apendix A - Translation of "A Night at the Latin Quarter" from French Tales by Nagai Kaf

Apendix B - Translation of "Revenge of a Hand Organ" by Gershon Shofman;

Apendix C - Translation of "Modern Music" by Ya'akov Horowiz

Apendix D - Translation of "Sarasate's Recording" by Uchida Hyakken