The aesthetics of Japanese fascism
By: Alan Tansman.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520245051
Subjects: Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Fascism in literature; Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Fascist aesthetics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernist beginnings; title: Rendering violence beautiful: Yasuda Yojūrō's Japanese bridges; title: Objects of the sublime in literary writing; title: Unspoken fascism: the political rhetoric of essence of the national polity; title: Sentimental fascism on screen: Mother under the eyelids; title: Cultural criticism and the aesthetics of devotion in Kobayashi Hideo; title: Filaments of fascism in postwar times; title: Reading fascist aesthetics.