Japan, France, and East-West aesthetics : French literature, 1867-2000 / Jan Walsh Hokenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hokenson, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Japan--In literature.

Japan.

Art, Japanese.

Physical Description:

520 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2004]

Contents:

Introduction: The Shock of Encounter 13

The Painters' Discovery of Japanese Prints in Paris 13

Old Guard Orientalism and Avant-garde Japonisme 22

Approaches to Aesthetics 26

Part I Toward a New Aesthetic in the West

1. Convergence of Painters and Writers 39

Historical Orientations 39

Writers on Painting 45

Early Literary Japonisme: The Goncourts 57

2. Naturalist and Fin-de-Siecle Configurations 69

Zola's Japoniste Art Novel: L'Oeuvre 69

Japoniste Strategies of Vision in the Rougon-Macquart Cycle 81

Fin-de-Siecle Fictions: Huysmans, Loti, Judith Gautier 92

The First Literary Translations of Japanese Poetry 110

3. Symbolism and Japoniste Contexts 120

An 1880s Dispute Over Aesthetic Value: The French Position 120

Intellectual Contexts of Symbolism: Asia as Interlocutor 128

Mallarme: Las de l'amer repos as Aesthetic Agenda 136

A New Poetics 142

Part II Modernist Configurations

4. Designs in Contrastive Aesthetics 179

Currents of Japonisme in 1900: Redefining the Japanese Prints 179

Le Japon Artistique and La Revue Blanche: Feneon and Dujardin 185

Satires and Reassessments 197

Proust: From a Japoniste Cup of Tea 204

5. The Japoniste Poetics of Early Modernism 225

Poet and Ambassador of Aesthetics: Claudel 225

French Principles of Translating Haiku, 1905-20: Couchoud and Revon 241

"Le Mouvement hai-kai" 253

Eluard and the Japoniste Apprenticeship 265

6. The Samurais of Modernism 276

Two Interwar Apprenticeships: Yourcenar and Malraux 276

Changing Contexts in France: Virilizing the Effeminate 298

Art and the Samurai: Picasso and the Antimemoires 305

The Samurai as Writer: Mishima, Un Homme obscur 312

Part III Rethinking the Occident via Japan

7. The Counter-Discourse of Japan 331

Modes of Intuition: Bergson, Kuki, Sartre 331

A Semiotic Japonisme: Barthes 346

A Poststructuralist Japonisme: Lyotard 364

8. Merging East-West Aesthetics 376

New Novels: Duras, Kristeva, Cixous 376

Kabuki in Paris: Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil 385

The Ever New Haiku: Bonnefoy, Roubaud, Jaccottet 391

Retrospective: Butor 408

Prospective: Oseki Depre 416

Table I Japanese Literature into French 419.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-508) and index.

ISBN:

0838640109

OCLC:

53045091