Inexorable modernity : Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts
Title:
Inexorable modernity : Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts
Author:
Nara, Hiroshi, 1951-
ISBN:
9780739118412
9780739118429
Publication Information:
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2007.
Physical Description:
xiii, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Inexorable modernity / Hiroshi Nara -- Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyōsai / Brenda G. Jordan -- "Modernité in art": Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / Mikiko Hirayama -- The ascent of yōga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Mayu Tsuruya -- Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsurō's philosophy / Hiroshi Nara -- Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyōgen experiments / Jonah Salz -- An aesthetic of destruction: Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / David G. Goodman -- Remembered idylls, forgotten truths: nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / David Jortner -- Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre): the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. -- The wild geese revisited: Mori Ōgai's mix of old and new / Keiko I. McDonald -- Public space and the nature of modern fiction: Izumi Kyōka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Charles Shirō Inouye -- Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / John K. Gillespie.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip071/2006031132.html
Added Author:
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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