Literary mischief : Sakaguchi Ango, culture, and the war / / edited by James Dorsey and Doug Slaymaker ; translations by James Dorsey.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Japanese
Series:New studies of modern Japan
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Physical Description:xi, 201 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Essays. Introduction: the scribbler and the sage / James Dorsey
  • The irrational will to reason: the praxis of Sakaguchi Ango / Karatani Kojin
  • Paradox at play: Ango as Japanese humanist / Ogino Anna
  • Kataru koto nashi: a brief tour of Ango's native place / Robert Steen
  • Sakaguchi Ango's individual cult(ure) / Doug Slaymaker
  • The art of war: Sakaguchi Ango's "Pearls" and the nature of literary resistance / James Dorsey
  • Works by Sakaguchi Ango. A personal view of Japanese culture (Nihon bunka shikan, 1942)
  • Pearls (Shinju, 1942)
  • Discourse on decadence (Darakuron, 1946)
  • Discourse on decadence, part II (Zoku darakuron, 1946).