Fate, Nature, and Literary Form : : The Politics of the Tragic in Japanese Literature / / Kinya Nishi.
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 bo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Names
- Preface
- Part One—The Historical Development of the Tragic in Japanese Literature
- Chapter 1: Approaching the Idea of Tragedy in the Non-West
- Chapter 2: Tragic Dramaturgy in Classical Japanese Theater
- Chapter 3: Tragic Individualism in Modern Japanese Fiction
- Part Two—The Dialectics of Nature in Japanese Intellectual History
- Chapter 4: The Dilemma of Multicultural Aesthetics
- Chapter 5: Japanese Modernity and the Cultural Configuration of Nature
- Part Three—Social Crisis and Literary Form
- Chapter 6: Matsuo Bashō’s Realism
- Chapter 7: Hiroshima and the Poetics of Death
- Chapter 8: Narrative after Fukushima
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects