Spirits of Another Sort : The Plays of Izumi Kyoka

Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical study that traces the development of Kyoka's work from the melodramatic formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of the Taisho era. It is important reading for those whose interests lie in Japanese literature, theater, and film and in crosss-cultural theater and film.

M. Cody Poulton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.