Screen LibraryCritical aesthetics：Kobayashi Hideo, modernity, and wartime Japan
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Harvard University Asia Center Distributed by Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 318 |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 283 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0674032845 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780674032842 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | I313 |
| CLC: | I313.064 |
| Call Number: | I313.064/D718 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index. Introduction -- "An endless clutter of things and events" -- Making Shiga simple -- Seeing past Akutagawa -- The inescapable "designs" -- A nation and history of one -- "The people cope in silence" -- Epilogue: Literary aestheticism in the postwar world. "This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Kobayashi sought in criticism a vehicle through which to rhetorically restore to the artistic work an aura of concreteness that precluded interpretation and instead inspired awe, to somehow recover a literary experience unmediated by intellectual machinations ... |