Escape from the wasteland : romanticism and realism in the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo...
Escape from the wasteland : romanticism and realism in the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo...
Escape from the wasteland : romanticism and realism in the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo / Susan J. Napier.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1991.
Date
1991.
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N895.6350914/1
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English
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x, 258 p. ; 24 cm.
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1. The Lost Garden: Beginnings of a Mythic Alternative. Festival Days: The Sound of Waves. Repletion and Rhythm: "Prize Stock" The Sacrifice of the Innocent Writ Large: Pluck the Buds, Shoot the Kids -- 2. The Wasteland of Sex. Eroticism in Postwar Literature. Absence and Desire: Confessions of a Ma...
Oh, My Emperor!: "Patriotism" and "Seventeen" From Irony to Madness: Runaway Horses and "The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away" -- 6. The Final Quest. You Can Learn a Lot from Legends: The Silent Cry. The Empty Garden: The Sea of Fertility -- 7. Mishima, Oe, and Modern Japan.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1991.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1991.
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Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo and the ever-disturbing Mishima Yukio have explored twentieth-century Japanese alienation with an unsparing eye and savage humor. In Escape from the Wasteland, Susan J. Napier examines their vivid and often perverse depiction's of sex, impotence, emperor worship, and violence. For new readers of Oe and Mishima, this...
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Escape from the wasteland : romanticism and realism in the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo / Susan J. Napier.
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Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 33.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 239-244.
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N895.6350914/1
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74Vve6D6dBNb
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0674261801
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895.63509145
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991016995419702626
