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008			261016s2009 xx 0 eng d
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040			_aInACL _beng _erda _cInACL
082	0	4	_a895.609 _bTAN _223
100	1		_aTansman, Alan _eauthor
245	1	4	_aThe aesthetics of Japanese fascism / _cAlan Tansman.
264		1	_aBerkeley, Calif : _bUniversity of California Press, _c2009
300			_ap. cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aIn 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.
650		0	_aJapanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
650		0	_aFascism in literature
650		0	_aFascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
650		0	_aFascist aesthetics -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
650		0	_aHistory
650		0	_aFascism
650		0	_aHistory and criticism
650		0	_aJapanese literature
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