1st Edition
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures Weaving Sounds into Words
Introduction
Chapter One - A Tale of Two Organs: The Use of Musical Forms in the Works of Gershon Shofman and Shimazaki Tōson
Chapter Two - Soirée à l’Opéra: Nagai Kafū and Leah Goldberg Go to the Opera
Chapter Three - The Music of Mechanical Ghosts: Literature Meets the Gramophone and the Radio
Chapter Four - Mechanical Music, Horror, and the Modern Dance Macabre: A Cyclical View of History as a Coping Mechanism in Ya’akov Horowiz’s ‘Muzika modernit’
Chapter Five - The Music of the Unconscious: Music and the Literary Expression of the Self
Conclusion
Appendix A – Translation of “A Night at the Latin Quarter” from French Tales by Nagai Kafū
Appendix B – Translation of “Revenge of a Hand Organ” by Gershon Shofman
Appendix C – Translation of “Modern Music” by Ya’akov Horowiz
Appendix D – Translation of “Sarasate’s Recording” by Uchida Hyakken
Biography
Shirah Malka Cohen is currently a research fellow at the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa and a lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto where she is based. She has published articles in academic journals on the subject of Japanese and Hebrew literatures in English, Japanese, and Hebrew and also works as a translator.
