Confluence and Conflict - Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book explores some of their most provocative connections in the volatile years of the 1920s to 1950s, revealing unexpected intersections of literature, ideas, and politics in a global transwar context.

About the author

Brian Hurley is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book explores some of their most provocative connections in the volatile years of the 1920s to 1950s, revealing unexpected intersections of literature, ideas, and politics in a global transwar context.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Hurley, Hurley Brian
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780674267909
• ISBN: 978-0-674-26790-9
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General