Dreams of Difference (eBook)

The Japan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

Kevin Michael Doak (Autor)

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2023
244 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-91424-7 (ISBN)

Infos

From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Hinduism • Imperial Japan • Irony • Japan • Japanese culture • japanese literature • japan romantic school • kamei katsuichiro • Labor • Literary movements • Literary Studies • Literature • Modernity • Nationalism • nihon romanha • Nonfiction • Peasants • Politics • Proletariat • Romanticism • social change • Social Theory • Totality • Tradition • World literature • yasuda yojuro
• ISBN-10: 0-520-91424-4 / 0520914244
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91424-7 / 9780520914247