Inexorable Modernity

Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts
Herausgeber: Nara, Hiroshi

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Produktbeschreibung

The book represents a compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was respond...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780739118412
• ISBN-10: 0739118412
• Artikelnr.: 22368385

Autorenporträt

Hiroshi Nara is professor of Japanese language and Japanese linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Inexorable Modernity Part 2 Art and Aesthetics Chapter 3 Potentially
Disruptive: Censorship and the Painter Kawanabe Kyosai Chapter 4 "Modernité
in Art": Kojima Kikuo's Critique of Contemporary Japanese Painting,
1931-1940 Chapter 5 The Ascent of Yoga in Modern Japan and the Pacific War
Chapter 6 Art and Ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's Philosophy Part 7 Theatre
Chapter 9 Contesting Authority through Comic Disruption: Mixed Marriages as
Metaphor in Postwar Kyogen Experiments Chapter 10 An Aesthetic of
Destruction: Mishima Yukio's My Friend Hitler Chapter 11 Remembered Idylls,
Forgotten Truths: Nostalgia and Geography in the Drama of Shimizu Kunio
Chapter 12 Healing the (Metaphysically) Sick (Theatre): A Buddhist Ibsen in
Christian Japan Part 13 Literature Chapter 14 The Wild Geese Revisited:
Mori Ogai's Mix of Old and New Chapter 15 Public Space and the Nature of
Modern Fiction: Izumi Kyoka's Noble Blood, Heroic Blood Chapter 16
Yokomitsu Riichi's Two Machines

Rezensionen

Inexorable Modernity has the clear virtue of addressing modern Japanese aesthetics, painting, and theater in a single volume, one of very few recent works to do so. Journal Of Japanese Studies By drawing together essays on art and aesthetics, theatre, film, and literature, this volume provides a broad, nuanced view of the landscape of modernity in Japan. It is a most interesting and useful resource for teaching-a fine tribute to an outstanding scholar and teacher whose erudition and creativity have afforded pleasure and insight to so many readers over the years. -- Elaine Gerbert, associate professor of modern Japanese literature, University of Kansas