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Rethinking Japanese modernism /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Starrs, Roy, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PART ONE: RETHINKING JAPANESE MODERNISM; JAPANESE MODERNISM RECONSIDERED; Solzhenitsyn's Challenge; Modernism and Modernity; The Historical Context of Japanese Modernism; The Legacy of Japonisme in Japan Itself; References; REWRITING THE LITERARY HISTORY OF JAPANESE MODERNISM; Modernism and Research Methods for its Reception History; The Reception of Modernism and its Aspects-Conceptual System, Aesthetic Ideas, Works; Criticism of Basho and the Shin kokinwakashu; Rupture from Early Modernism
  • MODERNISM AND MODERNITYTHE MODERN IN MEIJI JAPAN-AND ELSEWHERE IN TIME AND PLACE; References; 'OVERCOMING MODERNITY' AND CONFLICTING VIEWS OF JAPAN'S CULTURAL MISSION: INOUE TETSUJIRO AND SAWAYANAGI MASATARO; Introduction; Inoue Tetsujiro's View of Japanese Uniqueness; Inoue Tetsujiro's View of Japan's Cultural Mission; Sawayanagi Masataro's View of National Moral Education; Sawayanagi Masataro's View of Japan's Cultural Mission; Sawayanagi Masataro's View of International Education; Conclusion; References
  • AWAKENING BETWEEN SCIENCE, ART AND ETHICS: VARIATIONS OF JAPANESE BUDDHIST MODERNISM, 1890-1945Meiji Restoration and Aftermath; The Buddhist Enlightenment: Visions of Buddhist 'Modernity'; Warp and Woof: The Birth of New Buddhism; Nishida's Pure Experience and the Origins of Zen Modernism; Conclusion: Legacy of Aesthetic Modernism; PART TWO: MODERNISM IN JAPANESE FICTION FROM AKUTAGAWA TO SHIINA; A MODERNIST NOSTALGIA: THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE OF ENLIGHTENMENT TOKYO IN AKUTAGAWA RYUNOSUKE AND EDOGAWA RAMPO; Introduction; Akutagawa and the Aestheticization of the Enlightenment
  • Edogawa Rampo: The Uncanny Landscape of Meiji-era TokyoCOSMOPOLITANISM AND ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE IN AKUTAGAWA RYUNOSUKE'S KIRISHITAN MONO; Taisho Cosmopolitanism and Anxiety of Influence; Modernist Flows and Contra-Flows; Akutagawa Ryunosuke and the Japanization of Christianity; The Melancholic Red-Haired Barbarian; Dainichi, Deusu, Daiuso; Lost in Localization; References; LITERARY APPROPRIATIONS OF THE MODERN: THE CASE OF AKUTAGAWA RYUNOSUKE AND AUGUST STRINDBERG; Introduction; Inferno and 'Cogwheels' Compared; Confessional Writing and Its Reception; Strindberg and the Psychosciences
  • Reinterpreting StrindbergAuthenticity in Akutagawa; Cultural and Literary Contexts; MODERNISM AND ITS ENDINGS: KAJII MOTOJIRO AS TRANSITIONAL WRITER; Kajii in Context; Narrating the Unknowable; SHIINA RINZO: A JAPANESE LITERARY RESPONSE TO THE 'OVERCOMING MODERNITY' SYMPOSIUM; 'Overcoming Modernity': The Literary Outcomes; Shiina Rinzo: Responding to the Challenge; A Cry for Freedom; Conclusion; References; PART THREE: MODERNISM IN PREWAR JAPANESE POETRY AND MUSIC; MODERNISM IN PREWAR JAPANESE POETRY; What Was Literary Modernism?; Tanka Wars: 1920-1930