Disruptions of Daily Life : Japanese Literary Modernism in the World /

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"This book explores the mass media landscape of early 20th century in order to uncover the real-world subversive impact of formalist works by four major Japanese authors-Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. Through broad surveys of discourses su...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mitchell, Arthur M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature and society > Japan > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > Japan.
Japanese literature > Shōwa period, 1926-1989 > History and criticism.
Japanese literature > Taishō period, 1912-1926 > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Shattering the Status Quo : Reading Modernism in the Early Twentieth Century
  • Fetishism of the West in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's A Fool's Love
  • Subversions of Ethnicity in Yokomitsu Riichi's Neo-Sensationist Writings
  • Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa and the Narrative of the Present
  • "Love" and (Male) Subjectivity in Hirabayashi Taiko's "In the Charity Ward"
  • Coda : Against the National Literary Narrative.

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