Modanizumu
Subtitle: modernist fiction from Japan, 1913-1938
By: compiled and edited, with introductions and commentary, by William J. Tyler.
Contributors: Tyler, William Jefferson.
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press; University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9780824832421
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English; Modernism (Literature) -- Japan
Genres: Translations into English.
Description: "This volume presents in translation for the first time a collection of twenty-five stories and novellas representative of Japanese authors who worked in the modernist idiom from 1913 to 1938. Its prefatory materials provide a systematic overview of the literary movement's salient features - anti-naturalism, cosmopolitanism, the concept of the double self, and actionism - and describe how 'modanizumu' evolved from its early "jagged edges" into a sophisticated yet popular expression of Japanese urban life in the first half of the twentieth century. The 'modanist' style, characterized by youthful exuberance, a tongue-in-cheek tone, and narrative techniques like superimposition, is illustrated."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 583-588) and index.