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Rethinking Japanese modernism [electronic resource] / edited by Roy Starrs.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Starrs, Roy, 1946-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Modernism (Aesthetics)--Japan.
Modernism (Aesthetics).
Modernism (Art)--Japan.
Modernism (Art).
Modernism (Literature)--Japan.
Modernism (Literature).
Performing arts--Japan.
Performing arts.
Social change--Japan.
Social change.
Popular culture--Japan.
Popular culture.
City and town life--Japan.
City and town life.
Japan--Civilization--1868-.
Japan.
Japan--Intellectual life--1868-.
Japan--Social life and customs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (561 p.)
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading Japan scholars presents new research and thinking on Japanese modernism, a topic that has been increasingly recognized in recent years to be key to an understanding of contemporary Japanese culture and society. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach to this multifaceted topic, the book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity. Specific topics addressed include the literary modernism of major writers such as Akutagawa, Kawabata, Kajii, Miyazawa, and Murakami, avant-garde modernism in painting, music, theatre, and in the performance art of Yoko Ono, and the everyday modernism of popular culture and of new urban activities such as shopping and sports.
Contents:
Preliminary Material
Japanese Modernism Reconsidered / Roy Starrs
Rewriting the Literary History of Japanese Modernism / Suzuki Sadami
Modernism and Modernity / Charles Shirō Inouye
The Modern in Meiji Japan—and Elsewhere in Time and Place / Ken Henshall
‘Overcoming Modernity’ and Conflicting Views of Japan’s Cultural Mission: Inoue Tetsujirō and Sawayanagi Masatarō / Yushi Ito
Awakening between Science, Art and Ethics: Variations of Japanese Buddhist Modernism, 1890–1945 / James Mark Shields
A Modernist Nostalgia: The Colonial Landscape of Enlightenment Tokyo in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Edogawa Rampo / Seiji M. Lippit
Cosmopolitanism and Anxiety of Influence in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Kirishitan mono / Rebecca Suter
Literary Appropriations of the Modern: The Case of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and August Strindberg / Mats Karlsson
Modernism and its Endings: Kajii Motojirō as Transitional Writer / Stephen Dodd
Shiina Rinzō: A Japanese Literary Response to the ‘Overcoming Modernity’ Symposium / Mark Williams
Modernism in Prewar Japanese Poetry / Leith Morton
A Modernist Traditionalist: Miyagi Michio, Transculturalism, and the Making of a Music Tradition / Henry Johnson
Changing the Subject: Modernism and the Travel Poetry of Mori Michiyo / Janice Brown
Aborted Modernism: The Semantics of the Avant-garde in Yamamura Bochō’s ‘Prismism’ / Pierantonio Zanotti
‘Overcoming Modernity’ in Kenji Miyazawa / Takao Hagiwara
Reorienting Painting / Matthew Larking
Transcending the Boundaries of the ‘isms’: Pursuing Modernity through the Machine in 1920's and 1930's Japanese Avant-Garde Art / Chinghsin Wu
‘Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair’: Kyoto Nihonga, Anti-Bijin Portraiture and the Psychology of the Grotesque / John D. Szostak
Japanese Mythological Modernism: The Story of Puck and the Appearance of kindaijin / Roman Rosenbaum
Takarazuka and the Musical Modan in the Hanshin Region 1914-1942 / Alison Tokita
The Department Store: Producing Modernity in Interwar Japan / Elise K. Tipton
Abe Isoo and Baseball—New Social Relations beyond the Family-State Institution / Masako Gavin
Evolutionary Aspects of Modernism in Japanese Drama / Yasuko Claremont
Instructing, Constructing, Deconstructing: The Embodied and Disembodied Performances of Yoko Ono / Vera Mackie
Affective and Cognitive Mapping in Post-1960's Japan: The Influence of American Melancholic Modernism and Emerging Postmodernism on Murakami Haruki’s Early Fiction and Beyond / Jonathan Dil
Index.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-283-31006-6
9786613310064
90-04-21130-6
OCLC:
758335944

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