Inexorable modernity
Subtitle: Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts
By: edited by Hiroshi Nara.
Contributors: Nara, Hiroshi, 1951-
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780739118412; 9780739118429
Subjects: Arts, Japanese -- 1868-; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Japan; Modernism (Art) -- Japan; Modernism (Literature) -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inexorable modernity / Hiroshi Nara; title: Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyōsai / Brenda G. Jordan; title: "Modernité in art": Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / Mikiko Hirayama; title: The ascent of yōga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Mayu Tsuruya; title: Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsurō's philosophy / Hiroshi Nara; title: Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyōgen experiments / Jonah Salz; title: An aesthetic of destruction: Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / David G. Goodman; title: Remembered idylls, forgotten truths: nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / David Jortner; title: Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre): the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.; title: The wild geese revisited: Mori Ōgai's mix of old and new / Keiko I. McDonald; title: Public space and the nature of modern fiction: Izumi Kyōka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Charles Shirō Inouye; title: Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / John K. Gillespie.