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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Main Author: Hurley, Brian (Scholar of Japanese literature) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022.
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"--
Physical Description:xi, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674267909
0674267907