Refining Nature In Modern Japanese Literature
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Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature
Author | : Nanyan Guo |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014-01-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780739181041 |
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This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired writings and discusses how he created some vivid images of nature that became famous and still linger in Japanese people’s minds. Shiga’s remarkable sensitivity toward nature and the influences he received from earlier writers in Japan and abroad is examined. The complexity and depth of his understanding of nature is further revealed in his fascination with the supernatural, which also contributed to the creation of his literary style.
Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature
Author | : Makoto Ueda |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804711666 |
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A Stanford University Press classic.
Affect Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
Author | : Reiko Abe Auestad |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2024-07-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781040106693 |
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This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in analysing a selection of Japanese novels and a film. They are by four well-known male authors and a director (Natsume Sôseki, Shiga Naoya, Ôe Kenzaburô, Ibuse Masuji and Imamura Shôhei) and five female authors (Kirino Natsuo, Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Tsushima Yûko, and Ishimure Michiko) from the early twentieth century up to the early millennium. It approaches the different artistic strategies that oscillate between emotional immersion and critical reflection. Inspired by new developments in cognitive theory and neuroscience, the book seeks to put a spotlight on the aspects of modern Japanese novels that were not fully appreciated earlier; the eclectic and fluid nature of the novel as a form, and the vital roles played by affects and emotions often complicated under the impact of trauma. Rejuvenating previously established cultural theories through a cognitive and emotional lens (narratology, genre theory, historicism, cultural study, gender theory, and ecocriticism), this book will appeal to students and scholars of modern literature and Japanese literature.
Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature
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Author | : Makoto Ueda |
Publsiher | : Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804709041 |
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Art versus nature, the literary work and the author, the literary work and the reader, structure and style, and the purpose of literature are the main subjects treated in a study of eight leading writers of modern Japan
The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction
Author | : Michihiro Ama |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781438481432 |
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The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction is the first book to treat the literary practices of certain major modern Japanese writers as Buddhist practices, and to read their work as Buddhist literature. Its distinctive contribution is its focus on modern literature and, importantly, modern Buddhism, which Michihiro Ama presents both as existing in continuity with the historical Buddhist tradition and as having unique features of its own. Ama corrects the dominant perception in which the Christian practice of confession has been accepted as the primary informing source of modern Japanese prose literature, arguing instead that the practice has always been a part of Shin Buddhist culture. Focusing on personal fiction, this volume explores the works of literary figures and Buddhist priests who, challenged by the modern development of Japan, turned to Buddhism in a variety of ways and used literature as a vehicle for transforming their sense of selfhood. Writers discussed include Natsume Sōseki, Tayama Katai, Shiga Naoya, Kiyozawa Manshi, and Akegarasu Haya. By bringing Buddhism out of the shadows of early twentieth-century Japanese literature and elucidating its presence in both individual authors' lives and the genre of autobiographical fiction, The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction demonstrates a more nuanced understanding of the role of Buddhism in the development of Japanese modernity.
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Author | : Haruo Shirane |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2013-03-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231152815 |
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"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.
Ecocriticism in Japan
Author | : Hisaaki Wake,Keijiro Suga,Yuki Masami |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498527859 |
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Ecocriticism in Japan provides an answer to the question, “What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture?” Engaging works ranging from The Tale of Genji to Abe, Ōe, Ishimure, and Miyazaki, this volume examines works Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.
Reality and Fiction in Modern Japanese Literature
Author | : Noriko Mizuta Lippit |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Aestheticism (Literature). |
ISBN | : UCSC:32106006756404 |
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