James Dorsey, Douglas Slaymaker

Literary Mischief

Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War

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Produktbeschreibung

Literary Mischief brings renewed focus to the work of Sakaguchi Ango one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of postwar Japan. The essays and translations included get at the heart of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, and philosophy of postwar Japan.

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Produktdetails

• New Studies in Modern Japan
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780739138663
• ISBN-10: 0739138669
• Artikelnr.: 29985076

Autorenporträt

James Dorsey is associate professor of Japanese at Dartmouth College. Douglas Slaymaker is associate professor of Japanese at University of Kentucky.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Essays Chapter 2 1 Introduction: The Scribbler and the Sage Chapter
3 2 The Irrational Will to Reason: The Praxis of Sakaguchi Ango Chapter 4 3
Paradox at Play: Ango as Japanese Humanist Chapter 5 4 Kataru koto nashi: A
Brief Tour of Ango's Native Place Chapter 6 5 Sakaguchi Ango's Individual
Cult(ure) Chapter 7 6 The Art of War: Sakaguchi Ango's "Pearls" and the
Nature of Literary Resistance Part 8 Translations 9 7 A Personal View of
Japanese Culture (Nihon bunka shikan, 1942) 10 8 Pearls (Shinju, 1942) 11 9
Discourse on Decadence (Darakuron, 1946) 12 10 Discourse on Decadence, Part
II (Zoku darakuron, 1946)