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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hokenson, Jan. Japan, France, and East-West aesthetics. Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2004 (OCoLC)607446542 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Hokenson |
| ISBN: | 0838640109 9780838640104 |
| OCLC Number: | 53045091 |
| Description: | 520 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The shock of encounter. The painters' discovery of Japanese prints in Paris ; Old guard Orientalism and Avant-garde Japonisme ; Approaches to aesthetics. -- Convergence of painters and writers. Historical orientations ; Writers on painting ; Early literary Japonisme: The Goncourts. -- Naturalist and fin-de-siècle configurations. Zola's Japoniste art novel: L'Ouevre ; Japoniste strategies of vision in the Rougon-Macquart cycle ; Fin-de-siècle fictions: Huysmans, Loti, Judith Gautier ; The first literary translations of Japanese poetry. -- Symbolism and Japoniste contexts. An 1880s dispute over aesthetic value: the French position ; Intellectual contexts of symbolism: Asia as interlocutor ; Mallarmé: Las de l'amer repos as aesthetic agenda ; A new poetics. -- Designs in contrastive aesthetics. Currents of Japonisme in 1900: redefining the Japanese prints ; Le Japon artistique and La Revue blanche: Fénéon and Dujardin ; Satires and reassessments ; Proust: from a Japoniste cup of tea. --The Japoniste poetics of early modernism. Poet and ambassador of aesthetics: Claudel ; French principles of translating Haiku, 1905-20: Couchoud and Revon ; "Le Mouvement haï-kaï" ; Éluard and the Japoniste apprenticeship. -- The samurais of modernism. Two interwar apprenticeships: Yourcenar and Malraux ; Changing contexts in France: virilizing the effeminate ; Art and the samurai: Picasso and the Antimémoires ; The samurai as writer: Mishima, Un Homme obscur. -- The counter-discourse of Japan. Modes of intuition: Bergson, Kuki, Sarte ; A semiotic Japonisme: Barthes ; A poststructuralist Japonisme: Lyotard. -- Merging East-West aesthetics. New novels: Duras, Kristeva, Cixous ; Kabuki in Paris: Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil ; The ever new haiku: Bonnefoy, Roubaud, Jaccottet. -- Epilogue. Retrospective: Butor ; Prospective: Oseki Dépré. |
| Responsibility: | Jan Walsh Hokenson. |
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