The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature: Polygraphic Desire Contributor(s): Cornyetz, Nina (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415474604 ISBN-13: 9780415474603 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $50.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: This is a groundbreaking, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s through the Second World War and into the post-war period. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
Dewey: 895.609 |
Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.74 lbs) 226 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese canon, for instance works by Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe K b and Shinoda Masahiro, all renowned for their texts' aesthetic and philosophic brilliance. Cornyetz uniquely opens up the field in a fresh and controversial way by showing how these authors and filmmakers' concepts of beauty and relation to others were, in fact, deeply impacted by political and social factors. Probing questions are asked such as:
This ground-breaking work is truly interdisciplinary and will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese literature, film, gender, culture, history and even psychoanalytic theory. |