Confluence and conflict : reading transwar Japanese literature and thought

Author/Creator:: Hurley, Brian (Scholar of Japanese literature), author
Publication/Creation:: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: Confluence and conflict : reading transwar Japanese literature and thought / Brian Hurley
Series Titles:: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 450
Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 450.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Subjects:: Japanese literature--Shōwa period, 1926-1989--Philosophy
Japanese literature--Shōwa period, 1926-1989--History and criticism
Japanese literature--Shōwa period, 1926-1989--Political aspects
Literature and society--Japan
Japan--Intellectual life--20th century

Table of Contents:: Middlebrow as Method: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yamada Yoshio, and The Tale of Genji in the Age of Empire -- A Worldly World in Fiction and Philosophy: Reading Yokomitsu Riichi's The Melancholy of Travel as a "Novel of Ideas" -- Overcome by the Literary: Nakano Shigeharu, Tosaka Jun, and the Prosaic Politics of the Left -- The Fiction of the Free Market: Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro and the Neoliberal Imagination in Midcentury America -- Epilogue: Tracing the Neoliberal Aesthetic in 1980s Japan.
Summary:: ""Explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections between writers and intellectuals in modern Japan during the volatile transwar years of the 1920s-1950s. Reading philosophical texts alongside literary writings, the study links the intellectual side of literature to the literary dimensions of thought in contexts ranging from middlebrow writing to avant-garde modernism, and from the wartime left to the postwar right"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: xi, 325 pages ; 24 cm.