Confluence and conflict : reading transwar Japanese literature and thought

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Hurley, Brian (Scholar of Japanese literature), author

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""Explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections between writers and intellectuals in modern Japan during the volatile transwar years of the 1920s-1950s. Readi...

""Explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections between writers and intellectuals in modern Japan during the volatile transwar years of the 1920s-1950s. Reading philosophical texts alongside literary writings, the study links the intellectual side of literature to the literary dimensions of thought in contexts ranging from middlebrow writing to avant-garde modernism, and from the wartime left to the postwar right"--

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