Research Catalog

Title

Approaching Silence : new perspectives on Shusaku Endo's classic novel / edited by Mark W. Dennis and Darren J.N. Middleton.

Publication

• New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Dennis, Mark W.
• Middleton, Darren J. N., 1966-

Description

xxiv, 423 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Shusaku Endo is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists and is often described as "Japan's Graham Greene." Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece. Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames Silence through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo's other works as well as to the fiction of other authors. Approaching Silence promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West"--

Subjects

• Japanese fiction
• Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996
• Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 > Criticism and interpretation
• Endō, Shūsaku, 1923-1996 > Chinmoku English
• Chinmoku (Endō, Shūsaku)
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General
• 1900 - 1999
• PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Japanese fiction > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Silence in the World / Mark W. Dennis and Darren J.N. Middleton -- Part One. Background and Reception: 1. Before Silence: Stumbling Along with Rodrigues and Kichijiro / Kevin M. Doak; 2. Silence on Opposite Shores: Critical Reactions to the Novel in Japan and the West / Van C. Gessel; 3. The 'Formality' of the fumie?: A Re-Consideration of the Role of the fumie in Silence / Mark Williams; 4. Endo and Greene's Literary Theology / Darren J.N. Middleton; 5. Charting Endo's Catholic Literary Aesthetic / Mark Bosco, S.J.; 6. Forbidden Ships to Chartered Tours: Endo, Apostasy, and Globalization / Christopher B. Wachal -- Part Two. Christianity and Buddhism: 7. The Catholic Shift East: The Case of Japan / Christal Whelan; 8. Agape Unbound in Silence and Deep River / Elizabeth Cameron Galbraith; 9. Discerning the Marshland of This World: Silence from a Japanese Buddhist Perspective / Dennis Hirota; 10. A Buddhist Reading of the Blue Eyes of Jesus in Silence / Mark W. Dennis -- Part Three. Endo's Theology: 11. Literature as Dohansha in Silence / Jeff Keuss; 12. Is Abjection a Virtue?: Silence and the Trauma of Apostasy / Dennis Washburn; 13. 'And Like the Sea God was Silent': Multivalent Water Imagery in Silence / Frances McCormack; 14. Laughter Out of Place: Risibility as Resistance and Hidden Transcript in Silence / Jacqueline Bussie -- Part Four. Teaching Silence: 15. Silence in the Classroom / John Kaltner -- Part Five. Later Adaptations: 16. Silence, a play / Steven Dietz -- Afterword / Martin Scorsese.

Call Number

JFE 15-2890

ISBN

• 9781623562809
• 1623562805
• 9781623569839
• 1623569834

LCCN

2014037300

OCLC

846546302

Title

Approaching Silence : new perspectives on Shusaku Endo's classic novel / edited by Mark W. Dennis and Darren J.N. Middleton.

Publisher

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Dennis, Mark W., editor.

Middleton, Darren J. N., 1966- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-2890