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Dreams of Difference: Thejapan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

Dreams of Difference: Thejapan Romantic School and the Crisis of Modernity

Hardcover

Japanese History

ISBN10: 0520083776
ISBN13: 9780520083776
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jul 1 1994
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.99 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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