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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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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Table of Contents:
- Middlebrow as Method: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yamada Yoshio, and The Tale of Genji in the Age of Empire
- A Worldly World in Fiction and Philosophy: Reading Yokomitsu Riichi's The Melancholy of Travel as a "Novel of Ideas"
- Overcome by the Literary: Nakano Shigeharu, Tosaka Jun, and the Prosaic Politics of the Left
- The Fiction of the Free Market: Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro and the Neoliberal Imagination in Midcentury America
- Epilogue: Tracing the Neoliberal Aesthetic in 1980s Japan.