Emily brontë7/8/2023 ![]() “A highly readable and enjoyable little book.” “Raise important questions about how texts are transferred between cultures, and about why certain texts speak strongly to specific individuals and cultures.” “Engrossing and far-reaching, this book is a unique and valuable contribution to literature on Japan, made all the better for its author’s willingness to wander off her chosen path.” ![]() ![]() Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or nonexistent) English translations of major Japanese writers. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. ![]() On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. ![]() While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. ![]()
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