The aesthetics of Japanese fascism /

In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility, present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings, helped create an "aesthetic of fascism" in the years leading up to Worl...

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書誌詳細
第一著者: Tansman, Alan, 1960-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Berkeley : University of California Press ©2009.
シリーズ:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pq0g9
目次:
  • Modernist beginnings : Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo
  • The beauty of violence : Yasuda Yojūrō's "Japanese bridges"
  • Objects of the sublime in literary writing : Yasuda Yojūrō, Yanagi Sōetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya
  • The rhetoric of unspoken fascism : the essence of the national polity
  • Sentimental fascism on screen : Mother under the eyelids
  • An aesthetics of devotion : Kobayashi Hideo's cultural criticism
  • Filaments of fascism in postwar times
  • Coda : Reading fascist aesthetics.