The aesthetics of Japanese fascism / Alan Tansman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tansman, Alan, 1960-

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

A study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese literature.

Fascism in literature.

Fascist aesthetics--Japan--History--20th century.

Fascist aesthetics.

Fascism--Japan--History--20th century.

Fascism.

History.

Japan.

Physical Description:

x, 355 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2009]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520245051

0520245059

OCLC:

228676620