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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
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Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; General editors' preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Introduction; 1 Christianity and modern Japanese literature; The conflict between religion and literature; The question of sexuality; The construction of the self; Mutual intersections between literature, Christianity, and politics; A Christian-inspired concept of romantic love and the emergence of a modern sensuality; The awareness of sin and the limits of Meiji Protestantism; The dilemma of faith and the literary appropriation of Christianity; PART II Narratives of conversion. |
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2 Kitamura Tōkoku and the celebration of the "inner life"The growth of Protestantism in late nineteenth century Japan; Tōkoku's conversion; The concepts of kokoro and naibu seimei; The belief in the latent divinity of man and the conflict with Calvinism; 3 Shimazaki Tōson and the discovery of the self; Sakura no mi no jukusuru toki as a narrative of faith; Hakai: a new covenant of the "inner life"; 4 Kunikida Doppo: the rejection of self-deception and the paradox of contrition; Parallels with Tōson and Tōkoku; Azamukazaru no ki: "sincerity," nature, and the immortality of the soul. |
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The loss of faith and the desire to be moved5 Masamune Hakuchō: the fear of death and the cruelty of the Christian God; Hakuchō's conversion; Hakuchō's disparagement of Christianity; 6 Arishima Takeo: the problem of sin and of the inevitability of fate; Arishima's conversion; The question of free will and the influence of Quakerism; Arishima's apostasy: the reunification of the divided self and the condemnation of predestination; 7 The salvific discourse of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke; Early exposure to Christianity. |
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The past as a mirror of the self: the topos of the "holy fool" and the question of faith in Akutagawa's kirishitan monoKappa and Haguruma: escape from Protestantism; Seihō no hito and a new dialectics of faith; PART III Metaphors of Christianity; 8 A Christology of the self: the case of Mushanokōji Saneatsu; Kōfukumono: the deification of man and the construction of the messianic sage; 9 The appropriation of Christianity in narrative: Kinoshita Naoe's Hi no hashira and Nagayo Yoshirō's Seidō no kirisuto; Hi no hashira: Christian socialism and the building of an earthly kingdom of God. |
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Seidō no kirisuto and the conflict between art and faithEpilogue: "a poetic religion, rife with paradoxes"; Bibliography; Index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japanese literature -- Christian authors -- History and criticism.
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Japanese literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Japanese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Christianity and literature -- Japan.
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Christianity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. |
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Christianity and literature |
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Christianity in literature |
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Japanese literature |
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Japan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq |
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1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tomasi, Massimiliano. Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature : Metaphors of Christianity. Milton : Routledge, ©2018 9780815378761 |
| ISBN |
9781351228046 (electronic bk.) |
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1351228048 (electronic bk.) |
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9781351228060 |
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1351228064 |
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9780815378761 |
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0815378769 |
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9781351228053 (PDF ebook) |
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9781351228039 (Mobipocket ebook) |
