The aesthetics of Japanese fascism / Alan Tansman.
In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility, present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings, helped create an "aesthetic of fascism" in the years leading up to Worl...
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Table of Contents:
- Modernist beginnings : Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo
- The beauty of violence : Yasuda Yojūrō's "Japanese bridges"
- Objects of the sublime in literary writing : Yasuda Yojūrō, Yanagi Sōetsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya
- The rhetoric of unspoken fascism : the essence of the national polity
- Sentimental fascism on screen : Mother under the eyelids
- An aesthetics of devotion : Kobayashi Hideo's cultural criticism
- Filaments of fascism in postwar times
- Coda : Reading fascist aesthetics.