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Inexorable modernity : Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts / edited by Hiroshi Nara.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: xiii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0739118412
  • 9780739118412
  • 0739118420
  • 9780739118429
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.9520904
LOC classification:
  • NX584.A1 I54 2007
Contents:
Introduction : inexorable modernity / Hiroshi Nara -- Ch. 1. Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyosai / Brenda G. Jordan -- Ch. 2. "Modernite in art" : Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / Mikiko Hirayama -- Ch. 3. The ascent of Yoga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Mayu Tsuruya -- Ch. 4. Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's philosophy / Hiroshi Nara -- Ch. 5. Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyogen experiments / Jonah Salz -- Ch. 6. An aesthetic of destruction : Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / David G. Goodman -- Ch. 7. Remembered idylls, forgotten truths : nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / David Jortner -- Ch. 8. Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre) : the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / Devin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Ch. 9. The wild geese revisited : Mori Ogai's mix of old and new / Keiko L. Mcdonald -- Ch. 10. Public space and the nature of modern fiction : Izumi Kyoka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Charles Shrio Inouye -- Ch. 11. Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / John K. Gillespie.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : inexorable modernity / Hiroshi Nara -- Ch. 1. Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyosai / Brenda G. Jordan -- Ch. 2. "Modernite in art" : Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / Mikiko Hirayama -- Ch. 3. The ascent of Yoga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Mayu Tsuruya -- Ch. 4. Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's philosophy / Hiroshi Nara -- Ch. 5. Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyogen experiments / Jonah Salz -- Ch. 6. An aesthetic of destruction : Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / David G. Goodman -- Ch. 7. Remembered idylls, forgotten truths : nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / David Jortner -- Ch. 8. Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre) : the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / Devin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Ch. 9. The wild geese revisited : Mori Ogai's mix of old and new / Keiko L. Mcdonald -- Ch. 10. Public space and the nature of modern fiction : Izumi Kyoka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Charles Shrio Inouye -- Ch. 11. Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / John K. Gillespie.

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