TWIB-III: 52 (10/12-10/18)

[akujunkan]

No TWIB-III 50 and 51 because I read no English-language books during the former week and no books, period, during the latter week. Anyway, here is the book I read during the week of October 12-18.

1)日式韓流 - 毛利嘉孝（編）
     The Japanese-style Korean Wave - Mouri Yoshitaka (editor)
Like most academic works produced in Japan, the essays anthologized The Japanese-style Korean Wave are only nominally connected to the book's purported theme. The first four essays, dealing with topics like shooting-location tourism and the changing treatment of actor Bae Yong-joon in the Japanese press, are at least connected to the book's title. The remaining half of the book, however, deals predominantly with Japanese dramas in the rest of Asia, and was clearly only included to pad the volume out to publishable length. Which isn't to say that the essays aren't interesting in their own right (my favorite would have to be the breathlessly incredulous essay on Korean fansubbers of Jdrama: They fansub for free! And use emoticons! And some of them don't even (gasp) have professional-level Japanese skills!) but they have no place in a volume supposedly dealing with the Korean Wave.


That will be all.

Comments

[wombatdeamor.livejournal.com]

I feel the need to tell you that I'm currently reading my professor's book of poetry called Gold Carp Jack Fruit Mirrors, which is written about his time in India, and is steeped in Hindu imagery. And what that makes me want to do, strangely, is go to Japan, and read up more on Zen. So i realize that if I were to ever write poetry in Japan, I'd want to have a firm grasp on not just haiku, but modern Japanese poetry. If you have time or the knowledge, can you send a few ideas of poets my way? No rush, this seems like something I'll be studying for a long while. My poetry collection, by the time you get home, will be dauntingly huge.

And believe it or not, I do not have the book in front of me for that title. I'm amazed too.

[bran420-7.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY understand. I've been so preoccupied with school I STILL haven't posted reviews of the books I read in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER. Ugh...I feel so lazy...