Decadent literature in twentieth-century Japan : spectacles of idle labor
Ikuho Amano
Bok Engelsk 2013 Ikuo Amano
| Utgitt | New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013
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| Omfang | VIII, 243 s.
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| Opplysninger | -- Introduction: The Making of Decadence in Japan -- 1. Immature Decadents: The Waste of Useless Men in Indulgences - Two Novellas by Oguri Fuyo and Iwano Homei -- 2. The Decadent Consumption of the Self: Naturalist Aestheticismin Morita Sohei's Sooty Smoke -- 3. Decadent Returnees: The Dialogic Labor of Sensibility in Nagai Kafu's Sneers and Ueda Bin's The Vortex -- 4. Taisho Malaise as Decadence: Self-Reclusion and Creative Labor in Sato Haruo's A Pastoral Spreen and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's A Fool's Love -- 5. Decadence Begins with Physical Labor: The Postwar Usethe Body in Sakaguchi Ango's The Idiot and Tamura Taijiro's Gateway to the Flesh -- 6. Decadence as Generosity: Squander and Oblivion in Mishima Yukio's Spring Snow -- 7. Capitalist Generosity: Decadence as Giving and Receiving in Shimada Masahiko's Decadent Sisters -- Conclusion: Toward Japanese Decadence: The Dynamics of Energy from Waste to Living Labor.
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| ISBN | 1137382570. - 9781137382573
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