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Escape from the wasteland : romanticism and realism in the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo /
Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse depiction's of sex, impotence, emperor worship,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University,
1995.
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| Colección: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
33. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The Lost Garden: Beginnings of a Mythic Alternative. Festival Days: The Sound of Waves. Repletion and Rhythm: "Prize Stock" The Sacrifice of the Innocent Writ Large: Pluck the Buds, Shoot the Kids
- 2. The Wasteland of Sex. Eroticism in Postwar Literature. Absence and Desire: Confessions of a Mask and Our Era. From Fantasy to Reality: "The Locked Room" and "The Swimming Man"
- 3. Cries in the Wasteland: Sexual Violence. Sex Begets Murder: Thirst for Love and Outcries. The Intellectual Takes Action: Madame de Sade and The Sexual Human. Affirmative Visions: A Personal Matter and "Patriotism" Sexuality and the Role of Women
- 4. In Search of the Garden. When You Meet the Buddha, Kill the Buddha: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. The Bitter Taste of Glory: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Summer Had Passed Them By: Our Era. Apocalypse Now: The Floodwaters Have Come unto My Soul
- 5. Death and the Emperor: The Politics of Betrayal. The Emperor and Postwar Japan. Oh, My Emperor!: "Patriotism" and "Seventeen" From Irony to Madness: Runaway Horses and "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away"
- 6. The Final Quest. You Can Learn a Lot from Legends: The Silent Cry. The Empty Garden: The Sea of Fertility
- 7. Mishima, Oe, and Modern Japan.