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Critical aesthetics : Kobayashi Hideo, modernity, and wartime Japan /

"This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dorsey, James, 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2009.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 318.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "An endless clutter of things and events"
  • Making Shiga simple
  • Seeing past Akutagawa
  • The inescapable "designs"
  • A nation and history of one
  • "The people cope in silence"
  • Epilogue: Literary aestheticism in the postwar world.