Kinya Nishi

Fate, Nature, and Literary Form (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of the Tragic in Japanese Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "tragic" combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as "the other" of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists' endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644693803
• Artikelnr.: 61099795

Autorenporträt

Kinya Nishi is a professor of aesthetics and intellectual history at Konan University, Japan. He has published books and articles exploring the discursive formation of cultural tradition in the context of modern Japan. He has held visiting research positions at the University of Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Part One: The Historical Development of the Tragic in Japanese Literature 1. Approaching the Idea of Tragedy in the Non-West                                                     2. Tragic Dramaturgy in Classical Japanese Theater a.) Zeami b.) Chikamatsu Monzaemon 3. Tragic Individualism in Modern Japanese Fiction a.) Natsume S
seki b.)
e Kenzabur
Part Two: The Dialectics of Nature in Japanese Intellectual History 4. The Dilemma of Multicultural Aesthetics 5. Japanese Modernity and the Cultural Configuration of Nature a.) Naturalism and National Identity b.) From Protest to Conformism c.) The Return of the Mother in Postwar Criticism Part Three: Social Crisis and Literary Form 6. Matsuo Bash
s Realism 7. Hiroshima and the Poetics of Death 8. Narrative after Fukushima Bibliography Index