Confluence and Conflict : : Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought / / Brian Hurley.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monograph Series ; Volume 450
• VerfasserIn: Hurley, Brian (Scholar of Japanese literature),
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; Volume 450.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 325 pages).

"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.

Table of Contents

Middlebrow as Method: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro¯, 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 So¯seki's Kokoro and the Neoliberal Imagination in Midcentury America -- Epilogue: Tracing the Neoliberal Aesthetic in 1980s Japan.