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Modernism and Japanese Culture / by R. Starrs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Starrs, Roy, 1946-
- Series:
- Modernism and..., 2947-7239
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asia--History.
- Asia.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- Literature.
- Social history.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- History, Modern.
- Asian History.
- Cultural History.
- World Literature.
- Social History.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- Asian History.
- Cultural History.
- World Literature.
- Social History.
- Twentieth-Century Literature.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2011.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Modernity and Modernism in a Japanese Context
- PART I: CONSTRUCTING 'MODERNITY' AND 'TRADITION': MODERNISM AND ANTI-MODERNISM IN MEIJI JAPAN, 1868-1912
- Constructing Meiji Modernity
- The Anti-Modernist Backlash: Constructing Meiji Tradition
- The Novel as Modernist Medium: Modernity and Anti-Modernity in Meiji Fiction
- PART II: HIGH MODERNISM AND THE FASCIST BACKLASH, 1912-1945
- The Japanese Modernist Generation, 1912-1931
- The Historical Context of Japanese Modernism
- The Legacy of Japonisme in Japan Itself
- Kawabata as Modernist and Anti-modernist
- Overview
- Crystal Fantasies: Kawabata and the Modern Condition
- Snow Country: Kawabata and the Overcoming of Modernity
- PART III: THE RIVAL MODERNISMS OF POSTWAR JAPAN, 1945-1970
- Modernist Missionaries: The Americans in Japan, 1945-1952
- Japanese Responses to American Missionary Modernism
- The Occupation in Fiction
- French as an Alternative to American Modernism
- Oe Kenzaburo's 'Ambiguous' Utopianism
- Responses from the Right: The Empire Strikes Back
- The Reactionary Modernism of Mishima Yukio
- PART IV: EMPTY AND MARVELLOUS: JAPAN IN THE 'POSTMODERN AGE', 1970-2010
- Defining the 'Postmodern Condition'
- 'Postmodernity' in Japan
- National Culture and Identity in a 'Postmodern' Age
- A Goethean Conclusion
- Afterword: Japanese Modernism Today.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613318626
- 9781283318624
- 1283318628
- 9780230353879
- 0230353878
- OCLC:
- 759165967
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