Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics 9780824861506

Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West takes up the notion of artistic detachment, or psychic distance, as an intercu

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English Pages 304 [303] Year 2001

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Artistic Detachment as an Intercultural Theme
Part One. Artistic Detachment East and West
Chapter 1. Artistic Detachment in Western Aesthetics
Chapter 2. Artistic Detachment in Japanese Aesthetics
Chapter 3. An East-West Phenomenology of the Aesthetic Attitude
Part Two. Psychic Distance in Literature East and West
Chapter 4. Psychic Distance in Modern Western Literature
Chapter 5. Psychic Distance in Modern Japanese Literature
Glossary
References
Index of Names

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