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Book SynopsisOffers a study of Japanese cultural expression. This title reveals how a particular, often seemingly innocent aesthetic sensibility - present in novels, essays, popular songs, film, and political writings - helped create an 'aesthetic of fascism' in the years leading up to World War II.
Trade Review"A groundbreaking contribution to an exciting and newly developing field." -- Roy Starrs Journal Of Japanese Stds "Alan Tansman's The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism ... all in all, well-argued and thoroughly convincing." -- Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit Monumenta Nipponica
Table of ContentsPreface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism 1. Modernist Beginnings: Akutagawa Ryjnosuke and Kobayashi Hideo 2. The Beauty of Violence: Yasuda YojjrQ's "Japanese Bridges" 3. Objects of the Sublime in Literary Writing: Yasuda YojjrQ, Yanagi S_etsu, Kawabata Yasunari, and Shiga Naoya 4. The Rhetoric of Unspoken Fascism: The Essence of the National Polity 5. Sentimental Fascism on the Screen: Mother under the Eyelids 6. An Aesthetics of Devotion: Kobayashi Hideo's Cultural Criticism 7. Filaments of Fascism in Postwar Times Coda: Reading Fascist Aesthetics Notes Index
