Dreams of difference : the Japan romantic school and the crisis of modernity /
From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of mo...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1994.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5973005 |
| Summary: | From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xliii, 197 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520914247 0520914244 9780585154718 0585154716 9780585177366 0585177368 9780520083776 0520083776 |