Comparing cultures : readings on contemporary Japan for American writers

Author(s)

• White, Merry I.
• Barnet, Sylvan

Bibliographic Information

Comparing cultures : readings on contemporary Japan for American writers

[edited by] Merry I. White, Sylvan Barnet

Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1995

Note

Includes: Editors' Notes To Accompany Comparing Cultures (50 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• Thinking about culture
• Thinking about texts
• Growing up
• Courtship, love, and marriage
• Women's roles
• Growing older
• The meaning and practice of work
• Leisure and entertainment
• The cultural meaning of consumption
• Delinquency, crime, and punishment
• Notions of nation

Details

• NCID: BA3016469X
• ISBN:
  • 0312106203
• LCCN: 94065173
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boston, MA
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 475 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1130.J3
  • DC20 : 808/.0427
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Readers -- Japan
  • LCSH : English language -- Rhetoric
  • LCSH : Japan -- Civilization -- Problems, exercises, etc