The Fantastic in the 1960s and 1970s: the Idea of Subversion and an Exploration of Style
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu12816203272021-08-03T06:00:16Z The Fantastic in the 1960s and 1970s: the Idea of Subversion and an Exploration of Style Yu, Ying Literature Japanese literature the fantastic Shibusawa Tatsuhiko fantasy literature Mannerism Shinseinen magazine Ueda Akinari realism the 1960s and 1970s <p>This study provides a general picture of the literature of the fantastic as produced by Japanese writers in the 1960s and 1970s. It defines the modern fantastic in the second chapter as the embodiment of the moment of hesitation between natural and supernatural explanation. I show that in the 1960s and 1970s it was a literature of subversion.</p><p>In the third chapter, the formation of the Japanese fantastic is introduced.Shibusawa Tatsuhiko and Tanemura Suehiro's introduction of Mannerism and the contents of magazine <i>Blood and Roses</i> are analyzed. This chapter also includes a discussion of how the fantastic in the 1960s and 1970s was inspired by opposition to the realism that critics maintained dominated postwar literary world.</p><p>The fourth chapter mainly focuses on Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. His encyclopedic works, translated works of Marquis de Sade, and his experimental creation of fantastic works are discussed. These fictions of Shibusawa are examined to illustrate that he was obsessed with crafting an aesthetic and high stylization and to illustrate the features of his style, language, narrative, and the structure of his works.</p><p>Chapter five concerns on two <i>Shinseinen</i> writers, Oguri Mushitarō and Yumeno Kyūsaku whose resurgent popularity was inspired during the 1960s.Their mystery fiction echoes the same subversive features of the fantastic: the creating of a real world only to disrupt it with the unreal and making the representation of the real the target of representation. Nakai Hideo's mystery fiction in the 1960s is also discussed in this chapter to clarify the connection between the fantastic writers and early <i>Shinseinen</i> writers.</p><p>Chapter six argues there is a strong connection between the fantastic and previous literary forms: gesaku and kaidan. With the analysis of Ueda Akinari and Izumi Kyōka, we find that these works and the fantastic in the 1960s and 1970s all reflect prior literary forms for the purpose of parody, therefore gaining the power of subversion to escape the restrictions of time and create new forms.</p><p>In chapter seven, mainstream writers such as Ishikawa Jun and Mishima Yukio, who use fantasy elements, themes, and narrative techniques, are discussed. The all pervasive influence of the fantastic in the present day culture is also examined.</p><p>In short, the main purpose of this study is to use the fantastic as a new perspective on modern Japanese literature and to explore modern writers’ pursuit of various possibilities in literary expression. The fantastic in the 1960s and 1970s begins with the intention of undermining the domination of Japanese naturalism. However, by bringing to the fore a wealth of existing literary forms, from kaidan to Izumi Kyōka, from the detective stories in Shinseinen to the fiction of intellectuals, the writers of the fantastic undercut the idea that Japanese naturalism was dominate, and this demolished the reason for the existence of the fantastic as a serious literary movement. The fantastic, thus, was dissolved into popular entertainments; it was soon overcome by trite and came to be consumed as a popular entertainment literature that displayed the bizarre, erotic, and grotesque.</p> 2010-10-22 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281620327 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1281620327 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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