Dreams of Difference
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A01=Kevin Michael Doak
aesthetics
Author_Kevin Michael Doak
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hinduism
imperial japan
irony
japan
japan romantic school
japanese culture
japanese literature
kamei katsuichiro
labor
literary movements
literary studies
literature
modernity
nationalism
nihon romanha
nonfiction
peasants
politics
proletariat
romanticism
social change
social theory
totality
tradition
world literature
yasuda yojuro
Product details
- ISBN 9780520083776
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing.
Kevin M. Doak is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Chanpagne.
