Description |
1 online resource (x, 355 pages) |
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A study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Contents |
Modernist beginnings : Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo -- The beauty of violence : Yasuda Yojūrō's "Japanese bridges" -- Objects of the sublime in literary writing : Yasuda Yojūrō, Yanagi Sōetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya -- The rhetoric of unspoken fascism : the essence of the national polity -- Sentimental fascism on screen : Mother under the eyelids -- An aesthetics of devotion : Kobayashi Hideo's cultural criticism -- Filaments of fascism in postwar times -- Coda : Reading fascist aesthetics |
Summary |
In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility, present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings, helped create an "aesthetic of fascism" in the years leading up to World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from its beginnings in the 1920s through its flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in postwar Japan |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Subject |
Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Fascism in literature.
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Fascist aesthetics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Fascism
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Fascism in literature
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Fascist aesthetics
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Japanese literature
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Kultur
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Faschismus
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Literatur
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Gewaltdarstellung
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Fascism i litteraturen.
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Fascism -- historia -- Japan -- 1900-talet.
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Japansk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
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Japan
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Japan
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2021696574 |
ISBN |
9780520943490 |
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052094349X |
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