British And Japanese Modernism
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The British Stake In Japanese Modernity
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Author : Michael Gardiner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-09-30
The British Stake In Japanese Modernity written by Michael Gardiner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan’s modernity was bound up with a convergence with British Newtonian cosmology, something underscored by the British presence in Meiji Japan and the British education of key Meiji state-makers. Moreover the thinking behind Britain’s own unification in the long eighteenth century, particularly the Scottish Enlightenment, is echoed strikingly faithfully in the 1860s-70s work of Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nakamura Masanao, and other writers in the ‘Japanese Enlightenment’. However, from around the end of the Meiji era, we can see a concerted and pointed response to this British universalism, its historiography, its basis in the sovereign individual subject, and its spatial mapping of the world. Elements of this response can be read in texts including Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro, Watsuji Tetsurō’s Fūdo (Climate and Culture), Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In’ei Raisan (In Praise of Shadows), Kawabata Yasunari’s Yukiguni (Snow Country), and various work of the mid-period Kyoto School. Rarely understood in terms of its British specificity, this response should have something to say to modernist studies more generally, since it aimed at a pluralism and de-universalisation that was difficult for mainstream British modernism itself. Indeed the strength of this de-universalisation may be precisely why these ‘native’ Japanese modernist tendencies have not much been accepted as modernism within the Anglophone academy, despite this field’s apparent widening of its ground in the twenty-first century.
British And Japanese Modernism
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Author : Michael Gardiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-15
British And Japanese Modernism written by Michael Gardiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
This book studies the politics of British and Japanese modernism, partly in terms of comparative, post-comparative, and world literature understandings of a search for structural and formal similarities between texts arising from apparently different situations. It has a strongly national interest in that it takes neither Britain nor Japan for granted as pre-existing entities, but rather begins by historicizing, in terms of literary history, the cultural formation of these state bureaucracies as nations. The understanding of English Literature as a state-national field of cultural value is set against Japanese history, showing how the growth of (and antagonism to) the bureaucratic state between the 1860s and 1940s was played out in literary form. Gardiner addresses key contemporary problems in -- and about -- English Literature that takes account of recent thinking on national form, and considers the connection between literary history and formal political structures. The book explores familiar translated Japanese writers and also introduces untranslated writers in their historical contexts, setting them alongside some of the key texts of Anglophone radical modernism, and discovering surprising similarities that force us to rethink the idea that modernism was simply 'imported' by Japan after the 1860s. Gardiner's re-readings of modernism speak to a Japanese literary history which in some situations has taken Anglo-British methodology for granted.
Modernism And Japanese Culture
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Author : R. Starrs
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-10-12
Modernism And Japanese Culture written by R. Starrs and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-12 with History categories.
An in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism from the mid-19th century 'opening to the West' until the 21st century globalized world of 'postmodernism.' Its concept of modernism encompasses not just the aesthetic avant-garde but a wide spectrum of social, political and cultural phenomena.
Rethinking Japanese Modernism
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Author : Roy Starrs
language : en
Publisher: Global Oriental
Release Date : 2011-10-14
Rethinking Japanese Modernism written by Roy Starrs and has been published by Global Oriental this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-14 with History categories.
By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.
Topographies Of Japanese Modernism
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Author : Seiji M. Lippit
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2002
Topographies Of Japanese Modernism written by Seiji M. Lippit and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Education categories.
Lippit offers the first book-length study in English of Japanese modernist fiction from the 1920s to the 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this movement--Akutagawa, Yokomitsu, Kawabata, and Hayashi--Lippit aims to establish a theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of Japanese modernism.
Being Modern In Japan
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Author : Elise K. Tipton
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Being Modern In Japan written by Elise K. Tipton and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Art categories.
This volume is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature.
The British Press And The Japan British Exhibition Of 1910
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Author : Hirokichi Mutsu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
The British Press And The Japan British Exhibition Of 1910 written by Hirokichi Mutsu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with History categories.
The Japan-British exhibition in London, 1910 was the most concerted and systematic attempt by Meiji Japan to explain its traditional society and arts, modern industry and empire, to its most important international ally, Great Britain. This is a facsimile edition of the original book compiled and edited for the exhibition by Count Hirokichi Mutsu (1869-1942) and published in London and Tokyo in four parts in 1910 and 1911 by the Imperial Japanese Commission. This compendium of newspaper and journal articles, starting in March 1909 and ending in December of 1910, covers the preparation, activities and immediate aftermath of the Exhibition. Making widely available a veritable treasure trove of information and insight, it will be of interest to students and scholars of Japan and Britain alike, providing authoritative insights into contemporary attitudes in each country towards the other.
Advertising Tower
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Author : William O. Gardner
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Advertising Tower written by William O. Gardner and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with History categories.
On a December morning in 1925, a newspaper journalist reported receiving 25 different handbills in an hour’s walk in downtown Tokyo, advertising everything from Western-style clothing and furniture to sweet shops, charity organizations, phonograph recordings, plays, and films. The activities of advertisers, and the new entertainment culture and patterns of consumption that they promoted, helped to define a new urban aesthetic emerging in the 1920s. This book examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the twentieth century. In particular, it explores the themes and formal strategies of the modernist literature that flourished in the 1920s, focusing on the work of Hagiwara Kyojiro (1899-1938) and Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). William Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of individual subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of "mass media." Hagiwara’s conception of the poem and poet as an electric-radio "advertising tower" provides an emblem for the aesthetic tensions and multiple discourses of technology, media, urbanism, commerce, and propaganda that were circulating through the urban environment at the time; while Hayashi’s work, with its references to popular songs, plays, and movies, suggests an understanding of "everyday life" as the interface between individual subjectivity and a highly mediated environment.
British Modernism And Chinoiserie
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Author : Anne Witchard
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
British Modernism And Chinoiserie written by Anne Witchard and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism. Traditionally defined as a decorative style that conjured a fanciful and idealized notion of China, chinoiserie was revived in in London's avant-garde circles, the Bloomsbury group, the Vorticists and others, who like their eighteenth-century forebears, turned to China as a cultural and aesthetic utopia. As part of Modernism's challenge to the 'universality' of so-called Western values and aesthetics, the turn to China would contribute much more than has been acknowledged to Modernist thinking. As these 10 new chapters demonstrate, China as an intellectual and aesthetic utopia dazzled intellectuals and aesthetes, at the same time the consumption of Chinese exoticism became commercialized. The essays show that from cutting-edge Modernist chic to mass culture and consumer products, the vogue for chinoiserie style and motifs permeated the art and design of the period. --Provided by publisher.
Shirakaba And Japanese Modernism
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Author : Erin Schoneveld
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Shirakaba And Japanese Modernism written by Erin Schoneveld and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Art categories.
Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism examines the most significant Japanese art and literary magazine of the early twentieth century, Shirakaba (White Birch, 1910–1923). In this volume Erin Schoneveld explores the fluid relationship that existed between different types of modern visual media, exhibition formats, and artistic practices embraced by the Shirakaba-ha (White Birch Society). Schoneveld provides a new comparative framework for understanding how the avant-garde pursuit of individuality during Japan’s Taishō period stood in opposition to state-sponsored modernism and how this played out in the emerging media of art magazines. This book analyzes key moments in modern Japanese art and intellectual history by focusing on the artists most closely affiliated with Shirakaba, including Takamura Kōtarō, Umehara Ryūzaburō, and Kishida Ryūsei, who selectively engaged with and transformed modernist idioms of individualism and self-expression to create a new artistic style that gave visual form to their own subjective reality. Drawing upon archival research that includes numerous articles, images, and exhibitions reviews from Shirakaba, as well as a complete translation of Yanagi Sōetsu’s seminal essay, “The Revolutionary Artist” (Kakumei no gaka), Schoneveld demonstrates that, contrary to the received narrative that posits Japanese modernism as merely derivative, the debate around modernism among Japan’s early avant-garde was lively, contested, and self-reflexive.