Name: Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka Volume 29
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Author: Poulton, M. ; Poulton, Cody
ISBN: 9780939512010

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Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka Volume 29

Type

Physical Book

Author

M. Poulton

Cody Poulton

Publisher

U of M Center for Japanese Studies

Language

English

Pages

380

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.4 x 16.8 x 5.5 cm

Weight

0.66 kg.

ISBN13

9780939512010

Synopsis "Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka Volume 29"

Izumi Kyōka (1873-1939) had a predilection for the richly figurative and supernatural that seemed not only irrelevant to the concerns of modern life but an affront to the social and psychological realism that became the common currency of both literature and theater in modern Japan. Believing in beauty and truth and in language's mystical evocation of experience, Kyōka sought for a way to reinvest the world with a kind of magic that he felt was being lost. Although better known as a novelist, Kyōka also wrote a large number of plays, and his work has continued to be adapted by others for the stage and screen. Spirits of Another Sort, the first work in any language to focus on Izumi Kyōka's career as a playwright, argues that the dramas reveal, in an often unmitigated fashion, the writer's romanticism, his belief in the occult, his aversion to contemporary society, and his idiosyncratic but powerful ethical and aesthetic ideals. In an attempt to create a dramaturgy of the sacred from the dregs of the past, Kyōka's plays resemble the work of Maeterlinck or even Artaud. Spirits of Another Sort is a literary-critical study that traces the development of Kyōka's work from the melodramatic formulas of his early ideological fiction to the increasingly grotesque and fantastic permutations of the original pattern in his plays of the Taishō era. It is important reading for people interested in Japanese literature, theater, and film and in cross-cultural theater and film.

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