04603nam 2200697 a 450 991045503500332120210827024509.097866133397201-283-33972-21-4008-2386-21-4008-1432-410.1515/9781400823864(CKB)111056486499210(EBL)804868(OCoLC)785829266(SSID)ssj0000647076(PQKBManifestationID)11383133(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647076(PQKBWorkID)10593412(PQKB)10005824(MiAaPQ)EBC804868(MdBmJHUP)muse36192(DE-B1597)447252(OCoLC)979725160(DE-B1597)9781400823864(Au-PeEL)EBL804868(CaPaEBR)ebr10514798(CaONFJC)MIL333972(EXLCZ)9911105648649921020000201d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrOvercome by modernity[electronic resource] history, culture, and community in interwar Japan /Harry HarootunianCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20001 online resource (475 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-09548-5 0-691-00650-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --Chapter 1. The Fantasy of Modern Life --Chapter 2. Overcoming Modernity --Chapter 3. Perceiving the Present --Chapter 4. The Persistence of Cultural Memory --Chapter 5. The Communal Body --Chapter 6. History's Actuality --Abbreviations --Notes --IndexIn the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. What caught the attention of Japanese thinkers was how the production of desire actually threatened historical culture. These intellectuals sought to "overcome" the materialism and consumerism associated with the West, particularly the United States. They proposed versions of a modernity rooted in cultural authenticity and aimed at infusing meaning into everyday life, whether through art, memory, or community. Harootunian traces these ideas in the works of Yanagita Kunio, Tosaka Jun, Gonda Yasunosuke, and Kon Wajiro, among others, and relates their arguments to those of such European writers as George Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille. Harootunian shows that Japanese and European intellectuals shared many of the same concerns, and also stresses that neither Japan's involvement with fascism nor its late entry into the capitalist, industrial scene should cause historians to view its experience of modernity as an oddity. The author argues that strains of fascism ran throughout most every country in Europe and in many ways resulted from modernizing trends in general. This book, written by a leading scholar of modern Japan, amounts to a major reinterpretation of the nature of Japan's modernity.Civilization, Modern20th centuryJapanCivilization1912-1926JapanCivilization1926-1945JapanCivilizationWestern influencesJapanRelationsElectronic books.Civilization, Modern952.03/3Harootunian Harry D.1929-636820MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455035003321Overcome by modernity2489027UNINA03437nam 2200697 450 991081786320332120210423165900.01-315-61574-61-317-03511-91-317-03510-01-4724-4202-4(CKB)3710000000225082(EBL)1774206(OCoLC)889675846(SSID)ssj0001334465(PQKBManifestationID)11874729(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001334465(PQKBWorkID)11392591(PQKB)10848748(Au-PeEL)EBL1774206(CaPaEBR)ebr10957058(CaONFJC)MIL674703(MiAaPQ)EBC1774206(PPN)188726438(EXLCZ)99371000000022508220141030h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe dynamics of gender in early modern France women writ, women writing /Domna C. StantonSurrey, England ;Burlington, Vermont :Ashgate,2014.©20141 online resource (266 p.)Women and Gender in the Early Modern WorldDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-43421-2 1-4724-4201-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Women Writ; 1 Recuperating Women and the Man Behind the Screen: (Un)classical Bodies in Les caquets de l'accouchée (1622)?; 2 The Daughters' Sacrifice and the Paternal Order in Racine's Iphigénie en Aulide; 3 The Female Mind Reformed: Pedagogical Counter-Discourses, Radical and Regressive, Under Louis XIV; Part II Women Writing; 4 The Heroine at War: Self-Divisions in La Guette's "Extraordinary" Memoirs5 From the Maternal Metaphor to Metonymy and History: Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Maternity and the Passion of Mme de Sévigné6 Overreading, Without Doubt: Ambiguity and Irony in La Princesse de Montpensier; Afterword; Bibliography; IndexThe Dynamics of Gender in Early Modern France adds a new dimension to the field of early modern French literary and cultural studies by incorporating dynamic, shifting notions of gender and engaging with contemporary critical theory in an effort to gauge the specifics of textual conformity and resistance to norms. This book emphasizes the central importance of historical context and close reading from a feminist perspective, which it also interrogates as practice.Women and gender in the early modern world.Women and literatureFranceHistory16th centuryFrench literature17th centuryHistory and criticismGender identity in literatureFrench literature16th centuryHistory and criticismWomen and literatureHistoryFrench literatureHistory and criticism.Gender identity in literature.French literatureHistory and criticism.840.9/003Stanton Domna C.1628083MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817863203321The dynamics of gender in early modern France3964975UNINA