History of Literary Trends in Japanese Literature

Author: Ye Weiqiu, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 1997-03-01
Features: This book is a scholarly monograph on the history of Japanese literary trends in China. The authors approach the subject from a new perspective, basing their analysis on the indigenous literary thought of Japan. They adopt a historical dynamic analysis of the exchange between Sinicized and Westernized literatures, systematically discussing the entire process of the development of literary trends. Starting from a state of cultural chaos and the self-generated awareness of primal literature, through contact and synthesis with Sinic literary thought, forming conceptual literary trends, to the collision and fusion with Western heterogeneous literary thought in modern times and after World War II, forming ideological literary trends. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the internal inevitability and external factors influencing the emergence, development, peak, and decline of various literary trends. Additionally, by exploring the correspondence and continuity in the evolution of Japanese literary trends from conceptual to ideological forms, it compares their fundamental theories and creative tendencies, highlighting their foreignness. This allows for an understanding of the developmental patterns of Japanese literary subjectivity and emphasizes its national characteristics. It is an important work for gaining a macroscopic understanding of the history of Japanese literature.