Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought

by Brian Hurley

Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections in the volatile transwar years of the 1920s to 1950s. Reading philosophical texts alongside literary writings, the study links the intellectual side of literature to the literary dimensions of thought in contexts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674267907
• ISBN13: 9780674267909
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 338 Pages