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Le campagne allucinate: sul modernismo rurale nella letteratura giapponese di inizio Novecento

  • Pierantonio Zanotti

In this essay, making use of concepts from the scholarship on rural modernism and Mark Fisher’s aesthetic reflection on the “weird” and the “eerie”, I analyze some texts in Japanese literature from the first three decades of the twentieth century. In the works of Yamamura Bochō, Hagiwara Sakutarō, and Miyoshi Tatsuji we find traces of a representation of the countryside as a site with its own specific form of modernity; the treatment of rural settings in non-realist modes; humus as the source of a weird externality; and the rural landscape as a powerfully eerie place.

  • Keywords:
  • Rural Modernism,
  • Mark Fisher,
  • Yamamura Bochō,
  • Hagiwara Sakutarō,
  • Miyoshi Tatsuji,
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Pierantonio Zanotti

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0001-8708-9156

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Chapter Title

Le campagne allucinate: sul modernismo rurale nella letteratura giapponese di inizio Novecento

Authors

Pierantonio Zanotti

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Italian

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10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4.20

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Il dono dell’airone

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Scritti in onore di Ikuko Sagiyama

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Luca Capponcelli, Diego Cucinelli, Chiara Ghidini, Matilde Mastrangelo, Rolando Minuti

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2024

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Firenze University Press

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Connessioni. Studies in Transcultural History

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