Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan [electronic resource] /
Amano, I.author.
Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of decadence.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Making of Decadence in Japan; One Immature Decadents: The Waste of Useless Men in Indulgences-Two Novellas by Oguri Fūyō and Iwano Hōmei; Two The Decadent Consumption of the Self: Naturalist Aestheticism in Morita Sōhei's Sooty Smoke; Three Decadent Returnees: The Dialogic Labor of Sensibility in Nagai Kafū's Sneers and Ueda Bin's The Vortex; Four Taishō Malaise as Decadence: Self-Reclusion and Creative Labor in Satō Haruo's A Pastoral Spleen and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's A Fool's Love
Five Decadence Begins with Physical Labor: The Postwar Use of the Body in Sakaguchi Ango's The Idiot and Tamura Taijirō's Gateway to the FleshSix Decadence as Generosity: Squander and Oblivion in Mishima Yukio's Spring Snow; Seven 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; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of decadence.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Oriental literature.
Languages.
Language and languages.
Fiction.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Asian Literature.
Asian Languages.
Fiction.