Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan

by James Dorsey

This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Kobayashi sought in criticism a vehicle through which to rhetorically restore to the artistic work an aura of concreteness that precluded interpretation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032845
• ISBN13: 9780674032842
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"