Confluence and conflict : reading transwar Japanese literature and thought

Confluence and conflict : reading transwar Japanese literature and thought / Brian Hurley.

Author/creator	Hurley, Brian (Scholar of Japanese literature) author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2022.
Copyright Notice	̐u2022
Description	xi, 325 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)	Japanese literature--Sh̐uowa period, 1926-1989 --Philosophy. Japanese literature--Sh̐uowa period, 1926-1989 --History and criticism. Japanese literature--Sh̐uowa period, 1926-1989 --Political aspects. Literature and society--Japan. Japan--Intellectual life --20th century.

Series	Harvard East Asian monographs Harvard East Asian monographs 450. ^A21267
Contents	Middlebrow as Method: Tanizaki Jun'ichir̐uo, 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 S̐uoseki's Kokoro and the Neoliberal Imagination in Midcentury America -- Epilogue: Tracing the Neoliberal Aesthetic in 1980s Japan.
Abstract	""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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2021053739
ISBN	9780674267909
ISBN	0674267907 hardcover

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