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The aesthetics of Japanese fascism [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Tansman



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Autore: Tansman Alan <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The aesthetics of Japanese fascism [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Tansman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
Disciplina: 895.6/09
Soggetto topico: Japanese literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Fascism in literature
Fascist aesthetics - Japan - History - 20th century
Fascism - Japan - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: 1920s
1930s
20th century
aesthetics
art aesthetics
cultural expression
cultural history
cultural perspective
global history
historical
human condition
japan
japanese culture
japanese essays
japanese fascism
japanese film
japanese music
japanese novels
japanese politics
modern history
nonfiction
political science
popular music
postwar japan
pre war japan
retrospective
revolution
spiritual history
violence
world history
world war ii
wwii
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The aesthetics of Japanese fascism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-94349-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790184203321
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Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.