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Jane Austen and Kanai Mieko: comic sisterhood.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... A number of modern Japanese writers--both men and women--have expressed their strong respect and admiration for Jane Austen's literature. Kanai Mieko (b.1947), (1) in particular, has not only written some insightful comments about the works of the English novelist, but also novels and short...

A cross-cultural approach to Jane Austen's novels.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... How should we teach Jane Austen's novels? This is a question of great concern to many teachers. For example, the series 'Approaches to Teaching World Literature' includes Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, and takes up this question. It shows many interesting approaches, focusing on...

From the violent to the comic through the power of the text: Nogami Yaeko reading Jane Austen in Japan.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2008... Nogami Yaeko (1885-1985) was one of modern Japan's most revered woman novelists. She was also a great admirer of the writing of Jane Austen. Nogami Yaeko first read Jane Austen as a young woman. However, in 1926, at the age of forty-one, her understanding of the English writer's work became...

Even paradise has serpents.(Short story)
November 1, 2008... I wonder if Maguy knows I am here waiting at the airport, if she's pleased I've been so summarily dealt with by the police and Monsieur Hourrichon. But she's not a malicious person so perhaps not. She's probably with Albert anyway and not thinking about me at all. Albert is all she cares...

Nothing to fear.(Short story)
November 1, 2008... 'You really don't want to go home?' She shakes her head. She's embarrassed. She's thirty years old and scared of the dark. 'What are you so afraid of?' She looks out of the car at her house. It sits on a corner block and is lit yellow by the setting sun. 'What if someone were...