Van C. Gessel
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Why Is Van C. Gessel Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Van C. Gessel is a former Dean of the BYU College of Humanities at Brigham Young University. He also served as chair of the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at BYU. He has become renowned for his work as the primary translator for Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku. He is also a prominent editor of several Japanese translations including The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature .
Van C. Gessel's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese literature (2011) (19)
- Three Modern Novelists: Soseki, Tanizaki, Kawabata (1993) (12)
- Re-casting the Midwives of Modernism: Autobiographies of American Expatriate Women Publishers and Editors (1996) (10)
- Voices in the Wilderness: Japanese Christian Authors (1982) (8)
- The Sting of Life: Four Contemporary Japanese Novelists (1989) (6)
- The Saga of Dazai Osamu: A Critical Study with Translations (1986) (5)
- Teaching "the Devil's Own Tongue": The Challenges of Offering Japanese in a College Environment. (1997) (4)
- The "Medium" of Fiction: Fumiko Enchi as Narrator (1988) (4)
- Hearing God in Silence: The Fiction of Endo Shusaku: (1999) (3)
- Factors influencing the mineral content of herbage. (1970) (3)
- When I whistle (1980) (3)
- “Strange Characters & Expressions”: Three Japanese Translations of the Book of Mormon (2005) (2)
- The Shōwa anthology: Modern Japanese short stories : 1929-1984 (1989) (1)
- Endo Shusaku: His Position(s) in Postwar Japanese Literature (1993) (1)
- From 1945 to the present (2007) (1)
- The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishōsetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction@@@The Rhetoric of Confession: Shishosetsu in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Fiction (1990) (1)
- `The Sting of Death' and Other Stories by Shimao Toshio. (1986) (1)
- The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories. (1986) (1)
- The Showa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories. Vol. 1: 1929-1961, Vol. 2: 1961-1984 (1987) (1)
- Stained glass elegies : stories (1985) (1)
- Scandal : a novel (1988) (1)
- Japanese fiction writers, 1868-1945 (1997) (1)
- Due Time: Modern Japanese Women Writers (1989) (0)
- Five by Endo : stories (2000) (0)
- Sachiko: A Novel (2019) (0)
- Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction, by Rebecca Suter (2017) (0)
- From restoration to occupation, 1868-1945 (2005) (0)
- When I whistle : a novel (1979) (0)
- Mormons in Asia (2015) (0)
- December 8, 1941 (translation of Dazai Osamu, Jūnigatsu yōka): Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 1 (2005) (0)
- Facade rehabilitation and improvement grant program for Albion, Indiana (2013) (0)
- A Cat, A Man, and Two Women: Stories by Jun'Ichiro Tanizaki. (1991) (0)
- Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868-1945@@@Japanese Fiction Writers since World War II (1998) (0)
- The Shōwa Anthology: Modern Japanese Short Stories. 1: 1929-1961. 2: 1961-1984 (1987) (0)
- The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Christian (1996) (0)
- The literature of Kojima Nobuo, Yasuoka Shotaro, and Endo Shusaku : cripples, clods, and cowards in contemporary Japanese fiction (1979) (0)
- Coming to Terms: The Challenge of Creating Christian Vocabulary in a Non-Christian Land (2011) (0)
- Probing the Modern Heart : Natsume Sō seki ’ s Kokoro (2009) (0)
- The Samurai: A Novel (1980) (0)
- Japanese fiction writers since World War II (1997) (0)
- Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity . By Tomi Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. x, 248 pp. $35.00. (1996) (0)
- The final martyrs (1993) (0)
- The final martyrs : stories (1993) (0)
- The Voice of the Doppelgaenger (1991) (0)
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