Escape from the Wasteland : manticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo / Susan Jolliffe Napier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Napier, Susan Jolliffe, author.

Series:

Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 33.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN ; 9789004407077.

Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 33

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese fiction.

Romanticism.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

manticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1996.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio's and Kenzaburo's fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer's position in the tradition of Japanese literature.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Escape from the Wasteland : manticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo,

ISBN:

9781684170111

9780674261815

OCLC:

956317831

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684170111 DOI

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.