Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 355 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520245059
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9780520943490
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9780520245051
Series Statement:
A study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Content:
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 World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from it
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism; 1. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryunosuke and Kobayashi Hideo; 2. The Beauty of Violence: Yasuda Yojuro's "Japanese Bridges"; 3. Objects of the Sublime in Literary Writing: Yasuda Yojuro, Yanagi Soetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya; 4. The Rhetoric of Unspoken Fascism: The Essence of the National Polity; 5. Sentimental Fascism on Screen: Mother under the Eyelids; 6. An Aesthetics of Devotion: Kobayashi Hideo's Cultural Criticism
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7. Filaments of Fascism in Postwar TimesCoda: Reading Fascist Aesthetics; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520245051
Additional Edition:
Print version The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism
Language:
English
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