Critical Insights: Modern Japanese Literature

Author Frank Jacob

Publisher Salem Press

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Author

Frank Jacob

Publisher

Salem Press

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Copyright

2018

ISBN13

9781682172599

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Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Essays in this volume explore the search for national identity and examine the work of Murakami Haruki, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, and Futabatei Shimei.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature.
Critical Contexts.
1: Between East and West: Mori Ōgai and the Beginnings of Modern Japanese Literature.
2: Futabatei Shimei and the “Superfluous Man” as a Critique of Modernity.
3: Tōkyō Literature.
4: Okinawan Literature: Between Memory, Resistance, and Contemporary Issues.
Critical Readings.
5: Natsume Sōseki and the Search for Artistic Autonomy.
6: Nagai Kafū: The Unwilling Modern Writer.
7: Yamamura Bochō: Of Prisms and Clouds.
8: Shiga Naoya: Modern Observer of Human Nature.
9: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke: The Modernist Temptation.
10: Kawabata Yasunari: Modernism and Beyond.
11: Mishima Yukio: Aesthetics, Dualism, and Postwar Nationalism.
12: Ōba Minako: A Poet and Outsider of the Introverted Generation.
13: Murakami Haruki and the Power of Monogatari.
14: Cracks in Reality: Kirino Natsuo and the Exploration of Contemporary Japan.
15: Medoruma Shun: An Okinawan Voice of Unrest.
Resources.
Works of Modern Japanese Literature in English Translation.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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