TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nara,Hiroshi
TI  - Inexorable modernity: Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts 
SN  - 0739118412
AV  - NX584.A1 I54 2007
U1  - 700.9520904 
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Lanham, MD
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Arts, Japanese
KW  - 1868-
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics)
KW  - Japan
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
N1  - 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
ER  -