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1 online resource (561 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preliminary Material -- Japanese Modernism Reconsidered / Roy Starrs -- Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / Suzuki Sadami -- Modernism and Modernity / Charles Shirō Inouye -- The Modern in Meiji Japan -- and Elsewhere in Time and Place / Ken Henshall -- 'Overcoming Modernity' and Conflicting Views of Japan's Cultural Mission: Inoue Tetsujirō and Sawayanagi Masatarō / Yushi Ito -- Awakening between Science, Art and Ethics: Variations of Japanese Buddhist Modernism, 1890-1945 / James Mark Shields -- A Modernist Nostalgia: The Colonial Landscape of Enlightenment Tokyo in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Edogawa Rampo / Seiji M. Lippit -- Cosmopolitanism and Anxiety of Influence in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's Kirishitan mono / Rebecca Suter -- Literary Appropriations of the Modern: The Case of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and August Strindberg / Mats Karlsson -- Modernism and its Endings: Kajii Motojirō as Transitional Writer / Stephen Dodd -- Shiina Rinzō: A Japanese Literary Response to the 'Overcoming Modernity' Symposium / Mark Williams -- Modernism in Prewar Japanese Poetry / Leith Morton -- A Modernist Traditionalist: Miyagi Michio, Transculturalism, and the Making of a Music Tradition / Henry Johnson -- Changing the Subject: Modernism and the Travel Poetry of Mori Michiyo / Janice Brown -- Aborted Modernism: The Semantics of the Avant-garde in Yamamura Bochō's 'Prismism' / Pierantonio Zanotti -- 'Overcoming Modernity' in Kenji Miyazawa / Takao Hagiwara -- Reorienting Painting / Matthew Larking -- Transcending the Boundaries of the 'isms': Pursuing Modernity through the Machine in 1920s and 1930s Japanese Avant-Garde Art / Chinghsin Wu -- 'Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair': Kyoto Nihonga, Anti-Bijin Portraiture and the Psychology of the Grotesque / John D. Szostak -- Japanese Mythological Modernism: The Story of Puck and the Appearance of kindaijin / Roman Rosenbaum -- Takarazuka and the Musical Modan in the Hanshin Region 1914-1942 / Alison Tokita -- The Department Store: Producing Modernity in Interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton -- Abe Isoo and Baseball -- New Social Relations beyond the Family-State Institution / Masako Gavin -- Evolutionary Aspects of Modernism in Japanese Drama / Yasuko Claremont -- Instructing, Constructing, Deconstructing: The Embodied and Disembodied Performances of Yoko Ono / Vera Mackie -- Affective and Cognitive Mapping in Post-1960s Japan: The Influence of American Melancholic Modernism and Emerging Postmodernism on Murakami Haruki's Early Fiction and Beyond / Jonathan Dil -- Index |
| Summary |
By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Includes Japanese text followed by English translation |
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Print version record |
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Japan
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Modernism (Art) -- Japan
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Modernism (Literature) -- Japan
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Performing arts -- Japan
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Social change -- Japan
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Popular culture -- Japan.
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City and town life -- Japan
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City and town life
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Civilization
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Intellectual life
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Manners and customs
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Art)
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Modernism (Literature)
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Performing arts
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Popular culture
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Social change
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069374
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Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1868-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069534
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Japan -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579
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Japan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004211308 |
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9004211306 |
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9781283310062 |
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1283310066 |
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