Kobayashi Hideo (1902-83) was the most important Japanese literary critic of the twentieth century, as crucial a presence in his own literary culture as Edmund Wilson, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes were in theirs. This book is a collection of the most significant and enduring works from the pe...

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1. Verfasser:	Kobayashi, Hideo 1902-1983 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English Japanese
Veröffentlicht:	Stanford, Calif. Stanford Univ. Press 1995
Schlagworte:	Kobayashi, Hideo <1902-1983> - Traductions anglaises Kobayashi, Hideo <1902-1983> Kobayashi, Hideo <1902-1983> > Translations into English Kobayashi, Hideo > 1902-1983 Critique Critique - Japon Crítica Literatura japonesa - Historia y crítica Littérature japonaise - Histoire et critique Criticism Japanese literature > History and criticism Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Kobayashi Hideo (1902-83) was the most important Japanese literary critic of the twentieth century, as crucial a presence in his own literary culture as Edmund Wilson, Walter Benjamin, and Roland Barthes were in theirs. This book is a collection of the most significant and enduring works from the period when Kobayashi established himself as Japan's preeminent literary critic. It consists of five complete essays - "Multiple Designs," "The Anxiety of Modern Literature," "Literature of the Lost Home," "Chaos in the Literary World," and "Discourse on Fiction of the Self" - and excerpts from 37 other works The selections reflect the wide range of Kobayashi's early work, from meditations on the nature of literature and of criticism to studies of individual Japanese and Western writers. Among the subjects considered are: Marxism, the Japanese I-novel or fiction of the self, the ideological chaos and cultural anxieties afflicting Japan in the 1930s, cultural identity and Westernization, the psychological novel, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Shiga Naoya, Tanizaki Junichiro, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Valery, and Dostoevsky
Beschreibung:	Teilausg. - Aus dem Japan. übers.
Beschreibung:	IX, 177 S.
ISBN:	0804725373