Description: Further DetailsTitle: TrespassesCondition: NewSubtitle: Selected WritingsISBN-10: 0822346370EAN: 9780822346371ISBN: 9780822346371Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/07/2010Description: Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link culture with politics and a remarkable critical voice within the academy. For more than four decades, Miyoshi worked outside the mainstream, trespassing into new fields, making previously unseen connections, and upending naive assumptions. With an impeccable sense of when a topic or discussion had lost its critical momentum, he moved on to the next question, and then the next after that, taking on matters of literary form, cross-cultural relations, globalization, art and architecture, the corporatization of the university, and the threat of ecological disaster. Trespasses reveals the tremendous range of Miyoshi’s thought and interests, shows how his thinking transformed over time, and highlights his recurring concerns. This volume brings together eleven selections of Miyoshi’s previously published writing, a major new essay, a critical introduction to his life and work, and an interview in which Miyoshi reflects on the trajectory of his thought and the institutional history of modern Japan studies. In the new essay, “Literary Elaborations,” he provides a masterful overview of the nature of the contemporary university, closing with a call for a global environmental protection studies that would radically reconfigure academic disciplines and merge the hard sciences with the humanities and the social sciences. In the other, chronologically arranged selections, Miyoshi addresses cross-culture relations between Japan and the United States, English literary studies in Japan, and Japan studies in the U.S., as well as the organization of urban space and the integrity of art and architecture in aggressively marketed-oriented environments. Trespasses is an invaluable introduction to the work of a fearless cultural critic.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Masao MiyoshiContributor: Eric Cazdyn (Edited by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Post-Contemporary InterventionsItem Weight: 513gRelease Year: 2010 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Trespasses
Title: Trespasses
Subtitle: Selected Writings
ISBN-10: 0822346370
EAN: 9780822346371
ISBN: 9780822346371
Release Date: 04/07/2010
Release Year: 2010
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Eric Cazdyn (Edited by)
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Book Title: Trespasses : Selected Writings
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Civilization, Comparative Literature, International Relations / General, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / Politics
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Political Science, History
Item Weight: 18.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Masao Miyoshi
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
