Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature

The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya

AvNanyan Guo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired writings and discusses how he created some vivid images of nature that became famous and still linger in Japanese people’s minds. Shiga’s remarkable sensitivity toward nature and the influences he received from earlier writers in Japan and abroad is examined. The complexity and depth of his understanding of nature is further revealed in his fascination with the supernatural, which also contributed to the creation of his literary style.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-23
Mått:159 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:AsiaWorld
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739181027

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Nanyan Guois associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan. She has published eight books including, Japan’s Wartime Medical Atrocities (2010), and Tsugaru: Regional Identity on Japan’s Northern Periphery.

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Guo's study will remain a crucial contribution to such reception as exists by its focus on Shiga's deep love of nature.

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IntroductionChapter 1: The Nurturing of Shiga’s Feelings for NatureChapter 2: The Moon: Early Encounters with NatureChapter 3: The Sun: In Pursuit of a Religiosity of Art Chapter 4: Nature Destroyed: The Ashio Copper Mine PollutionIncidentChapter 5: Plants: The Essence of NatureChapter 6: Living Creatures: Mirrors of Human NatureChapter 7: The Supernatural and NatureChapter 8: Dreams: Nature InternalizedChapter 9: Lafcadio Hearn’s Influence on Shiga’s Literary StyleConclusion: Nature-Inspired Art and Artistic NatureAppendix 1: Chronology of Shiga Naoya’s Life and ArtAppendix 2: Map with Important Places in Shiga’s Literature