Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-30941-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

In Sato Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature, Charles Exley offers the first comprehensive examination of Sato’s literary oeuvre from the 1910s through the 1930s. The study examines the ways in which selected novels and short stories interact with cultural discourses of the time, including the fantastic, the discourse on melancholy and mental illness, detective fiction and early film, colonial encounter and critique of civilization, and hysteria and psychoanalysis.
Exley’s alignment of Sato’s fictional work with its cultural and historical context illustrates the complex ways in which Sato’s aesthetic projections derived from and comment on Japan’s experience with modernization during the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Exley, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Exley, Ph.D. (2004), Yale University, is Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Film at University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include Sato Haruo, modern Japanese literature, Asakusa opera, and film.