Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868-1937 Book

While this book was very informative, I struggled to keep interest while working through this book. Many of the articles were a little dry and didn't seem necessary. This to me is like writing a term paper or an article on something that everyone knows. Other than the few that did that, the rest were great. I really enjoyed "The Raja's New Clothes: Redressing Ravana in Meghanadavadha Kavya" the most. I suppose with a book like this that covers a variety of topics, it makes sense to not find all of them the most interesting.