Literary Mischief - Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War

Informationen zum Autor By James Dorsey and Douglas Slaymaker - Contributions by Ogino Anna; Karatani Kojin; Doug Slaymaker and Robert Steen 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; HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, Second World War, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General