Tales of Old Japan - Maybe You Like It

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James Joyce
Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first
published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic
depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dublin
in the early years of the 20th century.
The stories were written at the time when Irish nationalism was at
its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging;
at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by
various converging ideas and influences. They center on Joyce's
idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character has a special
moment of self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters
in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel
Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by children
as protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with
the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line
with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence
and maturity.
Rudyard Kipling
Just so Stories
The stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories, fantastic
accounts of how various phenomena came about. A forerunner of
these stories is "How Fear Came" in The Second Jungle Book
(1895), in which Mowgli hears the story of how the tiger got his
stripes.
Lafcadio Hearn
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, Vol 1
A Japanese magic-lantern show is essentially dramatic. It is a play
of which the dialogue is uttered by invisible personages, the actors
and the scenery being only luminous shadows. Wherefore it is peculiarly
well suited to goblinries and weirdnessess of all kinds;
and plays in which ghosts figure are the favourite subject. -from
"Of Ghosts and Goblins"
In 1889, Westerner Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Japan on a journalistic
assignment, and he fell so in love with the nation and its
people that he never left. In 1894, just as Japan was truly opening
to the West and global interest in Japanese culture was
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