03529nam 2200673Ia 450 991046222250332120200520144314.00-520-94349-X10.1525/9780520943490(CKB)2670000000162521(EBL)1609003(SSID)ssj0000628020(PQKBManifestationID)11441374(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000628020(PQKBWorkID)10701506(PQKB)11703161(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055991(MiAaPQ)EBC1609003(DE-B1597)520922(OCoLC)1110706903(DE-B1597)9780520943490(Au-PeEL)EBL1609003(CaPaEBR)ebr10675704(OCoLC)870245481(EXLCZ)99267000000016252120080508d2009 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrThe aesthetics of Japanese fascism[electronic resource] /Alan TansmanBerkeley University of California Pressc20091 online resource (369 p.)A study of the Weatherhead East Asian InstituteDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-24505-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --Abbreviations --Introduction: The Aesthetics Of Japanese Fascism --1. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryūmnosuke And Kobayashi Hideo --2. The Beauty Of Violence: Yasuda Yojūrō's "Japanese Bridges --3. Objects Of The Sublime In Literary Writing: Yasuda Yojūrō, Yanagi Sōetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, And Shiga Naoya --4. The Rhetoric Of Unspoken Fascism: The Essence Of The National Polity --5. Sentimental Fascism On Screen: Mother Under The Eyelids --6. An Aesthetics Of Devotion: Kobayashi Hideo's Cultural Criticism --7. Filaments Of Fascism In Postwar Times --Coda: Reading Fascist Aesthetics --Notes --IndexIn this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility-present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings-helped create an "aesthetic of fascism" in the years leading up to World War II. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from its beginnings in the 1920's through its flowering in the 1930's to its afterlife in postwar Japan.Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.Japanese literature20th centuryHistory and criticismFascism in literatureFascist aestheticsJapanHistory20th centuryFascismJapanHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Japanese literatureHistory and criticism.Fascism in literature.Fascist aestheticsHistoryFascismHistory895.6/09Tansman Alan1960-865554MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462222503321The aesthetics of Japanese fascism2441566UNINA