Format:
X, 283 S.
ISBN:
9780674032842
Series Statement:
Harvard East Asian monographs 318
Content:
"This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Kobayashi sought in criticism a vehicle through which to rhetorically restore to the artistic work an aura of concreteness that precluded interpretation and instead inspired awe, to somehow recover a literary experience unmediated by intellectual machinations. In adhering firmly to this worldview for the duration of World War II, Kobayashi came to assume a complex stance toward the wartime regime. Although his interweaving of aesthetics and ideology exhibited elements of both resistance and complicity, his critical ethos served ultimately to undergird his wartime fascist stance by encouraging acquiescence to authority, championing patriotism, and calling for more vigorous thought control." -- Book jacket.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Kobayashi, Hideo 1902-1983
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