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The aesthetics of Japanese fascism /

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 Worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tansman, Alan, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.