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The aesthetics of Japanese fascism /
Tansman, Alan
The aesthetics of Japanese fascism / Alan Tansman. - p. cm.
In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman 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. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from its beginnings in the 1920s through its flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in postwar Japan.
9780520245051 0520245059
Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Fascism in literature
Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Fascist aesthetics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
History
Fascism
History and criticism
Japanese literature
895.609 / TAN
The aesthetics of Japanese fascism / Alan Tansman. - p. cm.
In this wide-ranging study of Japanese cultural expression, Alan Tansman 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. Evoking beautiful moments of violence, both real and imagined, these works did not lead to fascism in any instrumental sense. Yet, Tansman suggests, they expressed and inspired spiritual longings quenchable only through acts in the real world. Tansman traces this lineage of aesthetic fascism from its beginnings in the 1920s through its flowering in the 1930s to its afterlife in postwar Japan.
9780520245051 0520245059
Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Fascism in literature
Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Fascist aesthetics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
History
Fascism
History and criticism
Japanese literature
895.609 / TAN