Prologue: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Problem of Modernity -- 1. Toward an Ironic Praxis: Yasuda Yojuro and the Aesthetics of Totality -- 2. Indeterminate Poetics: The Romantic Style -- 3. Return to Parnassus: The Exoticism of the Self -- 4. The Ethics of Identity: Kamei Katsuichiro and the Search for a New Subject -- 5. The Production of a Culture of the Same -- Epilogue: Romanticism Rehabilitated -- App. A. Members of the Japan Romantic School -- App. B. Subjective Positions in Ito Shizuo's Laments to My Person
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235) and index
