Fate, nature, and literary form : the politics of the tragic in Japanese literature

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Fate, nature, and literary form : the politics of the tragic in Japanese literature

Kinya Nishi

（Studies in comparative literature and intellectual history）

Academic Studies Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "tragic" combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as "the other" of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists' endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment"-- Provided by publisher

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This study is a theoretical reconsideration of the concept of the "tragic" combined with detailed analyses of Japanese literary texts. Inspired by contemporary critical discourse (especially the works by such thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Fredric Jameson and Raymond Williams), the author challenges both exotic and postmodern representation of Japanese culture as "the other" of the West. By examining the social backgrounds of artists' endeavors to create new literary forms, the author unveils a rich tradition of tragic literature that, unlike the dominant local tradition of naturalism, has registered the unbridgeable gap between universal ideals and social values at a particular historical moment.

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Acknowledgments Preface Part One: The Historical Development of the Tragic in Japanese Literature 1. Approaching the Idea of Tragedy in the Non-West 2. Tragic Dramaturgy in Classical Japanese Theater a.) Zeami b.) Chikamatsu Monzaemon 3. Tragic Individualism in Modern Japanese Fiction a.) Natsume Soseki b.) Oe Kenzaburo Part Two: The Dialectics of Nature in Japanese Intellectual History 4. The Dilemma of Multicultural Aesthetics 5. Japanese Modernity and the Cultural Configuration of Nature a.) Naturalism and National Identity b.) From Protest to Conformism c.) The Return of the Mother in Postwar Criticism Part Three: Social Crisis and Literary Form 6. Matsuo Basho's Realism 7. Hiroshima and the Poetics of Death 8. Narrative after Fukushima Bibliography Index

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