The Youth of Things : Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro /

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When he died from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, Kajii Motojirō had written only twenty short stories. Yet his life and work, it is argued here, sheds light on a significant moment in Japanese history and, ultimately, adds to our understanding of how modern Japanese identity developed. By t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dodd, Stephen, 1955- (Author)
Other Authors: Kajii, Motojirō, 1901-1932
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Kajii, Motojirō, > 1901-1932.
Kajii, Motojirō, > 1901-1932 > Criticism and interpretation.
Mortality in literature.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Mort dans la litterature.
Mortalite dans la litterature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Illness as empowerment
  • Modernism and its endings
  • Things of beauty
  • The subject of change
  • Translations.

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