Rethinking Japanese Modernism

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-21003-5
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1010 g

Reihe: Brill

Edited by Roy Starrs, this collection of essays by an international group of leading Japan scholars presents new research and thinking on Japanese modernism, a topic that has been increasingly recognized in recent years to be key to an understanding of contemporary Japanese culture and society. By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach to this multifaceted topic, the book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.

Specific topics addressed include the literary modernism of major writers such as Akutagawa, Kawabata, Kajii, Miyazawa, and Murakami, avant-garde modernism in painting, music, theatre, and in the performance art of Yoko Ono, and the everyday modernism of popular culture and of new urban activities such as shopping and sports.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Starrs, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Über Autor(innen)

Roy A. Starrs, Ph.D. (1986) in Asian Studies, University of British Columbia, teaches at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published extensively on Japanese literature and culture, most recently (as editor) Politics and Religion in Moderrn Japan (2011).