Confluence and conflict : reading transwar Japanese literature and thought /
""Explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections between writers and intellectuals in modern Japan during the volatile transwar years of the 1920s-1950s. Reading philosophical texts alongside literary writings, the study links the intellectual side of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2022.
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
450. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. |
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| Summary: | ""Explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections between writers and intellectuals in modern Japan during the volatile transwar years of the 1920s-1950s. Reading philosophical texts alongside literary writings, the study links the intellectual side of literature to the literary dimensions of thought in contexts ranging from middlebrow writing to avant-garde modernism, and from the wartime left to the postwar right"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 325 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674267909 0674267907 |