Literary Mischief - Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War

Informationen zum Autor Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky. Klappentext Literary Mischief brings renewed focus to the work of Sakaguchi Ango one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of postwar Japan. The essays and translations included get at the heart of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, and philosophy of postwar Japan. Zusammenfassung Literary Mischief brings renewed focus to the work of Sakaguchi Ango one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of postwar Japan. The essays and translations included get at the heart of the most volatile issues of culture! ideology! and philosophy of postwar Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Essays Chapter 2 1 Introduction: The Scribbler and the Sage Chapter 3 2 The Irrational Will to Reason: The Praxis of Sakaguchi Ango Chapter 4 3 Paradox at Play: Ango as Japanese Humanist Chapter 5 4 Kataru koto nashi: A Brief Tour of Ango's Native Place Chapter 6 5 Sakaguchi Ango's Individual Cult(ure) Chapter 7 6 The Art of War: Sakaguchi Ango's "Pearls" and the Nature of Literary Resistance Part 8 Translations 9 7 A Personal View of Japanese Culture (Nihon bunka shikan, 1942) 10 8 Pearls (Shinju, 1942) 11 9 Discourse on Decadence (Darakuron, 1946) 12 10 Discourse on Decadence, Part II (Zoku darakuron, 1946)

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• Authors: James Dorsey, James/ Slaymaker Dorsey, Dorsey James, Douglas Slaymaker, Slaymaker Douglas
• Assisted by: James Dorsey (Editor), Douglas Slaymaker (Editor), James Dorsey (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2010
• EAN: 9780739138663
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3866-3
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies of Modern Japan (H; New Studies in Modern Japan; New Studies of Modern Japan (H
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; 20th Century, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Second World War, Literature: history & criticism, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), East Asia, Far East, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General