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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anri YasudaPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231210621ISBN 10: 0231210620 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 04 June 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Sources and Translations 1. Modern Japanese Literature and Aesthetics 2. Natsume Sōseki’s Quest for “A Feeling of Beauty” 3. Mori Ogai and the “Inner Flame” of Beauty 4. Mushanokōji Saneatsu and the Early Shirakaba’s Artistic Cosmopolitanism 5. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Literary Anxieties and the “Power to Remake” Epilogue: Why Aesthetics? Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsIn this bold rereading of four literary giants from the Meiji-Taishō period – Sōseki, Ōgai, Akutagawa and Mushanokōji – Anri Yasuda deftly analyzes their aesthetics while also revealing the ideology and critical engagement that lie behind their artistic ideals. Placing the writers in dialogue with each other, Yasuda shows how they understood ‘literature’ as a conceptual register to think through real-world questions, connecting closely with their subject matter and their readers, then and now. -- Rachael Hutchinson, author of <i>Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self</i> In this bold rereading of four literary giants from the Meiji-Taishō period—Sōseki, Ōgai, Akutagawa, and Mushanokōji—Anri Yasuda deftly analyzes their aesthetics while also revealing the ideology and critical engagement that lie behind their artistic ideals. Placing the writers in dialogue with each other, Yasuda shows how they understood ‘literature’ as a conceptual register to think through real-world questions, connecting closely with their subject matter and their readers, then and now. -- Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware In this important book, Yasuda takes on the perennially pressing question of literature’s value in society through investigating the aesthetic philosophies of key modern Japanese writers. Her deft close readings of texts that compare the literary and visual arts are remarkably illuminating. -- Charles Inouye, Tufts University Anri Yasuda offers a fresh perspective on the aesthetics of modern Japanese literature. Focusing on major Japanese novelists who delved into questions of beauty at the theoretical, critical, and practical levels, she offers readings of their works featuring visual artists that spur us to gain inspiration from their intellectual, emotional, and sensual engagements with a world that was striated by cultural, political, and social dichotomies that, while not the same, echo our own. -- Indra Levy, Stanford University Author InformationAnri Yasuda is an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Virginia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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