Title: Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930.
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Price: US$140.00
Author: Yasuda, Anri
ISBN: 978-0-231-21062-1 Binding: Hardback Paperback    
Pub Date: 202405 Availability: NYP Illust:
Publisher(Imprint): Columbia U.P.
           
Description: Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868?1912) and Taish? (1912?1926) periods illuminated themes and perspectives that resonated broadly in modern Japanese society.