Modern Japanese Literature

Modern Japanese Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• * Representative Works
• Poetry
• Drama
  • Japanese Theatre: Languages and Pilgrimage
  • Visionary Gleams
  • Japanese Theatre from the 1980s: The Ludic Conspiracy
  • Tokyo Theatre 1990
• Fiction
  • Ironic Perspective and Self-Dramatization in the Confessional I-Novel of Japan
  • Post-World War II Literature: The Intellectual Climate in Japan, 1945-1985
  • Postoccupation Literary Movements and Developments in Japan
  • Japan's New Generation of Writers
  • Japanese Atomic Bomb Literature
• Western Influences
  • A Selection of New Style Verse (Shintaishisho, 1882)
  • Western Dark Romanticism and Japan's Aesthetic Literature
  • Buddhist Elements in Dada: A Comparison of Tristan Tzara, Takahashi Shinkichi, and Their Fellow Poets
• Further Reading