Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism: Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy (Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture)

Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, PhD, is a full tenured Professor in English and Head of the English and German Department at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). She specialises in Cultural Semiotics, Narratology and the literature of Ernest Hemingway. Her research in the field of Semiotics is specifically focused on the interrelation between language, identity and culture. Her main publications include Interculturalism: Between Identity and Diversity (2006), Paradojas de la interculturalidad: filosofía, lenguaje y discurso (2008), Linguistic Interaction in/& Specific Discourses (2010), Con/Texts of Persuasion (2011). Akiko Manabe, PhD, is Professor of English at the Shiga University (Japan). She specializes in American as well as Irish Modernist poetry and drama, especially Ezra Pound and other poets he directly influenced such as W. B. Yeats and Ernest Hemingway. Recent publications include Hemingway and Ezra Pound in Venezia (2015), «W. B. Yeats and Kyogen: Individualism & Communal Harmony in Japan's Classical Theatrical Repertoire» and «Pound, Yeats and Hemingway's ​Encounter with Japan: Kyogen and Hemingway's Poetry». She is an executive committe member of academic societies such as Japan Yeats Society, Japan Ireland Society and International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL), Japan. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Introduction (Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez / Akiko Manabe)......Page 11 Part I. New cultural standards in Japan and The West......Page 19 A Dialogue between Eastern and Western Phenomenology: Merleau-Ponty and Nishida. Creative Expression and Vacuity (Ma Carmen López Sáenz)......Page 21 Akiko Yosano and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Comparatist Revision of East/West Modernist Feminism (Irene Starace)......Page 49 Gonzalo Jiménez de la Espada: A Meiji-Era Spanish Professor and Translator in Japan (José Pazó Espinosa / V. David Almazán Tomás)......Page 67 Yukichi Fukuzawa and Masao Maruyama: Two Logics of the Nation and a Critique of the Absence of the Individual in Japanese Society (Shingo Kato)......Page 91 Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers vs. John Ford’s Three Godfathers. From the modern to the postmodern homeless hero (Carolina Plou)......Page 103 Part II. Japanese- Anglo/American Literary Hybrids......Page 119 On Poetry......Page 121 Literary Style and Japanese Aesthetics: Hemingway’s Debt to Pound as Reflected in his Poetic Style (Akiko Manabe)......Page 123 A Japanese Aesthetic Perspective on Haiku and the Arts (Tateo Imamura)......Page 147 On Prose......Page 155 Nada and Sunyata in “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” (Christopher Loots)......Page 157 Re-emergence of the Encounter with Long-Haired Painters: The Hidden Influence of the Japanese Artist in The Garden of Eden Manuscripts (Hideo Yanagisawa)......Page 179 From Pound’s to Hemingway’s Haiku-Like Textuality: Japanese Aesthetics in Chapter 20 of Death in the Afternoon (Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez)......Page 197 List of Contributors......Page 211 Bibliography......Page 215 Index......Page 233 Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, and, conversely, the impact of Western modernity on Japanese cultural modernization from the Meiji Era onwards. Such intercultural contact has brought on a renewal of cultural formats that can be explained in terms of hybridity as regards both the aesthetic and the intellectual production of the artists and thinkers from Japan and the West throughout the twentieth century and to the present. The outcome of modernization was the creation of new cultural standards in Japan and the West and, with it, new ways of understanding pedagogy and education, a reconceptualization of the Nation versus the individual, a redefinition of the role of women in modernizing society, also a revision of philosophical thought and a new approach to the role of linguistic signs in the production of meaning. Beatriz Penas-ibáñez & Akiko Manabe (eds). Proceedings Of International Conference Held At University Of Zaragoza, 2015. Issn 2235-7513 Ebook--title Page Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 213-230) And Index.