Sato Haruo and modern Japanese literature / by Charles Exley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Exley, Charles, author.

Series:

Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 55.

Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 0925-6512 ; Volume 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese literature.

Satō, Haruo, 1892-1964--Criticism and interpretation.

Satō, Haruo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature , Charles Exley offers the first comprehensive examination of Satō’s literary oeuvre from the 1910s through the 1930s. The study examines the ways in which selected novels and short stories interact with cultural discourses of the time, including the fantastic, the discourse on melancholy and mental illness, detective fiction and early film, colonial encounter and critique of civilization, and hysteria and psychoanalysis. Exley’s alignment of Satō’s fictional work with its cultural and historical context illustrates the complex ways in which Satō’s aesthetic projections derived from and comment on Japan’s experience with modernization during the twentieth century.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1 The Ends of Fantasy

2 Nervous Urban Bodies

3 Visual Curiosity and the Discourse of Detection

4 Colonial Experience and Cultural Critique

5 Romans à clef and the Secrets of Post-Quake Japan

Epilogue

Satō Haruo in Western Languages

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-30950-0

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004309500 DOI