Literary Mischief : Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War.

Literary Mischief : Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War.

Literary Mischief brings renewed focus to the work of Sakaguchi Ango one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of postwar Japan. The essays and translations included get at the heart of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, and philosophy of postwar Japan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorsey, James
Other Authors: Slaymaker, Douglas, Anna, Ogino, Kojin, Karatani, Slaymaker, Doug, Steen, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Japanese
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2010.
Series:New studies of modern Japan.
Subjects:
Sakaguchi, Ango, > 1906-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Sakaguchi, Ango, > 1906-1955
War and literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
War and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I: Essays; 1. Introduction: The Scribbler and the Sage; 2. The Irrational will to Reason: The Praxis of Sakaguchi Ango; 3. Paradox at Play: Ango as Japanese Humanist; 4. Kataru koto nashi: A Brief Tour of Ango's Native Place; 5. Sakaguchi Ango's Individual Cult(ure); 6. The Art of War: Sakaguchi Ango's ""Pearls"" and the Nature of Literary Resistance; Part II: Works; 7. A Personal View of Japanese Culture (Nihon Bunka Shikan, 1942); 8. Pearls (Shinju, 1942); 9. Discourse on Decadence (Darakuron, 1946).

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