A Note on Sources and Translations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. A Note on Sources and Translations xv
5. One Modern Japanese Literature and Aesthetics 1
6. Two Natsume Sōseki’s Quest for “A Feeling of Beauty” 35
7. Three Mori Ogai and the “Inner Flame” of Beauty 83
8. Four Mushanokōji Saneatsu and the Early Shirakaba’s Artistic Cosmopolitanism 134
9. Five Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Literary Anxieties and the “Power to Remake” 177
10. Epilogue: Why Aesthetics? 230
11. Notes 237
12. Bibliography 261
13. Index 271