Lafcadio Hearn As A Columnist For The Item
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Lafcadio Hearn As A Columnist For The Item
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Author : Edward Larocque Tinker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
Lafcadio Hearn As A Columnist For The Item written by Edward Larocque Tinker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with categories.
The Influence Of Lafcadio Hearn In The Field Of American Journalism
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Author : Earl Boyd Dutton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Influence Of Lafcadio Hearn In The Field Of American Journalism written by Earl Boyd Dutton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with categories.
The New Orleans Of Lafcadio Hearn
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Author : Delia LaBarre
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2021-09-02
The New Orleans Of Lafcadio Hearn written by Delia LaBarre and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-02 with History categories.
Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was a master satirist who displayed a fiery wit both as a writer and as an artist. For seven months in 1880, he surprised and amused the readers of New Orleans with his wood-block "cartoons" and accompanying articles, which were variously funny, scathing, surreal, political, whimsical, and moral. This delightful book collects in their entirety, for the first time, all of the extant satirical columns and woodcut illustrations published in the Daily City Item—181 columns in all. Hearn displays immense range, illuminating in words and prints the unique culture of New Orleans, including its Creole history, debauched underworld, corrupt politicians, and voudou practitioners. The columns are expertly annotated by Delia LaBarre, who places them in their unique Crescent City context. With virtually no training in art of any kind, Hearn began creating his illustrations partly to boost the circulation of a small daily newspaper in a competitive market. He believed in the power of satirical cartoons to communicate big ideas in small spaces—in particular, to reveal the habits, prejudices, and delusions of the current generation. Blind in his left eye (since a boyhood accident) and severely myopic in his right, Hearn nonetheless painstakingly carved out drawings on wood blocks with a penknife to be printed alongside his articles on the newspaper's letterpress. Hearn developed, from the first of these woodcuts to the last, a unique style that expressed the full range of his wit, from razor-sharp condemnation to tender affection. Hearn had a keen eye for the absurd, along with an extraordinary ability to modulate his criticism and praise in a continuum from cauterizing vitriol to palliative balm, from the heaviest sarcasm to the lightest wit. In the pieces collected here, there can be found a unifying thread: Hearn's love/hate relationship with the virtues and vices of New Orleans, a city that continually amused and amazed him. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Lafcadio Hearn immigrated to the United States as a teenager and became a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he married a black woman, an act that was illegal at the time, the newspaper fired him and Hearn relocated to New Orleans. In the early 1880s his contributions to national publications (like Harper's Weekly and Scribners Magazine) helped mold the popular image of New Orleans as a colorful place of decadence and hedonism. In 1888, Hearn left New Orleans for Japan, where he took the name Koizumi Yakumo and worked as a teacher, journalist, and writer. "And it may come to pass that I shall have stranger things to tell you; for this is a land of magical moons and of witches and of warlocks; and were I to tell you all that I have seen and heard in these years in this enchanted City of Dreams you would verily deem me mad rather than morbid." —Lafcadio Hearn, 1880, describing New Orleans in a letter to a friend
The Dream Of Lafcadio Hearn
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Author : Roger Pulvers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-15
The Dream Of Lafcadio Hearn written by Roger Pulvers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Fiction categories.
This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: "What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the season'?" Though now largely forgotten in the West, he is, in the 21st century, still considered by the Japanese to be the foreigner with the most insight into their mind and mores. Orphan of Europe, chronicler of the eerie and the grotesque, journalist and ethnographer of subcultures, Greek-Irish author Lafcadio Hearn arrived in Yokohama from the United States in 1890. During his 14-year stay in Japan he wrote 14 books about the country, becoming known, in the decades succeeding his death, as the foremost interpreter of things Japanese in the West. The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn is a novel not only about Hearn in Meiji Japan but about any person in any era who may feel, for a time or forever, more at home in a foreign land than in their own. The novel is preceded by a detailed introduction on Hearn from the time of his birth in Greece in 1850 until his death in Japan in 1904.
The Sweetest Fruits
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Author : Monique Truong
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-09-03
The Sweetest Fruits written by Monique Truong and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Fiction categories.
"A sublime, many-voiced novel of voyage and reinvention" (Anthony Marra) "[Truong] imagines the extraordinary lives of three women who loved an extraordinary man [and] creates distinct, engaging voices for these women" (Kirkus Reviews) A Greek woman tells of how she willed herself out of her father's cloistered house, married an Irish officer in the British Army, and came to Ireland with her two-year-old son in 1852, only to be forced to leave without him soon after. An African American woman, born into slavery on a Kentucky plantation, makes her way to Cincinnati after the Civil War to work as a boarding house cook, where in 1872 she meets and marries an up-and-coming newspaper reporter. In Matsue, Japan, in 1891, a former samurai's daughter is introduced to a newly arrived English teacher, and becomes the mother of his four children and his unsung literary collaborator. The lives of writers can often best be understood through the eyes of those who nurtured them and made their work possible. In The Sweetest Fruits, these three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. In their own unorthodox ways, these women are also intrepid travelers and explorers. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time. Each is a gifted storyteller with her own precise reason for sharing her story, and together their voices offer a revealing, often contradictory portrait of Hearn. With brilliant sensitivity and an unstinting eye, Truong illuminates the women's tenacity and their struggles in a novel that circumnavigates the globe in the search for love, family, home, and belonging.
The Life And Letters Of Lafcadio Hearn Scholar S Choice Edition
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-18
The Life And Letters Of Lafcadio Hearn Scholar S Choice Edition written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Kokoro
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Kokoro written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Folklore categories.
Inventing New Orleans
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2001
Inventing New Orleans written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
A selection of writings from the author who created America's notion of New Orleans as an exotic and mysterious place
Irish Writing On Lafcadio Hearn And Japan
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Author : Sean G Ronan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-07-17
Irish Writing On Lafcadio Hearn And Japan written by Sean G Ronan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-17 with History categories.
This will appeal to anyone wishing to enrich their understanding of Japan, those with an interest in Hearn, Irish literary tradition and life and literature in a cross-cultural context.
Japanese Ghost Stories
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Author : Lafcadio Hearn
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-07-25
Japanese Ghost Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-25 with Fiction categories.
The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray