Yasuda Beauty Matters

Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890–1930
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55851-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868–1912) and Taisho (1912–1926) periods illuminated themes and perspectives that resonated broadly in modern Japanese society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yasuda, Anri

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources and Translations
1. Modern Japanese Literature and Aesthetics
2. Natsume Soseki’s Quest for “A Feeling of Beauty”
3. Mori Ogai and the “Inner Flame” of Beauty
4. Mushanokoji Saneatsu and the Early Shirakaba’s Artistic Cosmopolitanism
5. Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s Literary Anxieties and the “Power to Remake”
Epilogue: Why Aesthetics?
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anri Yasuda is an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Virginia.