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Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : U of M Center for Japanese Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mishima on Stage written by Yukio Mishima and published by U of M Center for Japanese Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents nine remarkable plays by Mishima to English readers for the first time
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228436
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Star written by Yukio Mishima and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in English, a glittering novella about stardom from “one of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century” (Judith Thurman, The New Yorker) All eyes are on Rikio. And he likes it, mostly. His fans cheer, screaming and yelling to attract his attention—they would kill for a moment alone with him. Finally the director sets up the shot, the camera begins to roll, someone yells “action”; Rikio, for a moment, transforms into another being, a hardened young yakuza, but as soon as the shot is finished, he slumps back into his own anxieties and obsessions. Being a star, constantly performing, being watched and scrutinized as if under a microscope, is often a drag. But so is life. Written shortly after Yukio Mishima himself had acted in the film “Afraid to Die,” this novella is a rich and unflinching psychological portrait of a celebrity coming apart at the seams. With exquisite, vivid prose, Star begs the question: is there any escape from how we are seen by others?
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231126335
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (263 download)
Download or read book My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima written by Yukio Mishima and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was also a prolific playwright, penning more than sixty plays, nearly all of which were produced in his lifetime. Hiroaki Sato is the first to translate these plays into English. For this collection he has selected five major plays and three essays Mishima wrote about drama. The title play is a satire that follows the breakdown of friendship between Adolf Hitler and two Nazi officials who were ultimately assassinated under orders from Hitler.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201186
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Mask written by Yukio Mishima and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1958 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231126335
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (263 download)
Download or read book My Friend Hitler and Other Plays of Yukio Mishima written by Yukio Mishima and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was also a prolific playwright, penning more than sixty plays, nearly all of which were produced in his lifetime. Hiroaki Sato is the first to translate these plays into English. For this collection he has selected five major plays and three essays Mishima wrote about drama. The title play is a satire that follows the breakdown of friendship between Adolf Hitler and two Nazi officials who were ultimately assassinated under orders from Hitler.
Author : Henry Scott Stokes
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461624223
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima written by Henry Scott Stokes and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2000-08-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, playwright, film actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death. Henry Scott Stokes, one of Mishima's closest friends, was the only non-Japanese allowed to attend the trial of the men involved in Mishima's spectacular suicide. In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's meteoric and eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes. This biography skillfully and compassionately illuminates the achievements and disquieting ideas of a brilliant and deeply troubled man, an artist of whom Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata had said, "A writer of Mishima's caliber comes along only once every two or three hundred years."
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375705155
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book After the Banquet written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-02-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of a marriage in which lofty principles clash fatally with appetite and ambition—featuring a middle-aged restaurant owner who is "the biggest and the most profound thing Mishima has done so far in an already distinguished career" (The New Yorker). “One of the outstanding writers of the world." —The New York Times For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the middle-aged entrepreneur falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. In time, however, Kazu decides to resurrect her husband's political career. She embarks on a series of compromises and evasions that will force her to choose between her marriage and the demands of her irrepressible vitality.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679722408
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Runaway Horses written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-04-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yukio Mishima’s Runaway Horses is the second novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Again we encounter Shigekuni Honda, who narrates this epic tale of what he believes are the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend Kiyoaki Matsugae. In 1932, Shigeuki Honda has become a judge in Osaka. Convinced that a young rightist revolutionary, Isao, is the reincarnation of his friend Kiyoaki, Honda commits himself to saving the youth from an untimely death. Isao, driven to patriotic fanaticism by a father who instilled in him the ethos of the ancient samurai, organizes a violent plot against the new industrialists who he believes are usurping the Emperor’s rightful power and threatening the very integrity of the nation. Runaway Horses is the chronicle of a conspiracy — a novel about the roots and nature of Japanese fanaticism in the years that led to war.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811213127
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Patriotism written by Yukio Mishima and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Was it death he was now waiting for? Or a wild ecstasy of the senses?' For the young army officer of Yukio Mishima's seminal story, 'Patriotism, ' death and ecstasy become elementally intertwined. With his unique rigor and passion, Mishima hones in on the body as the great tragic stage for all we call social, ritual, political.
Author : Andrew Rankin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824876415
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist written by Andrew Rankin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who view him as a frivolous figure whose work expresses little more than his own morbid personality. In Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist, Andrew Rankin sets out to challenge this perception by demonstrating the intelligence and seriousness of Mishima’s work and thought. Each chapter of the book examines one of the central ideas that Mishima develops in his writings: life as art, beauty as evil, culture as myth, eroticism as transgression, the artist as tragic hero, narcissism as the death drive. Along with fresh readings of major works of fiction such as The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and “Patriotism,” the book introduces less familiar works in different genres. Special prominence is given to Mishima’s essays, which contain some of his most brilliant writing. Mishima is concerned with such problems as the loss of certainties and absolute values that characterizes modernity, and the decline of strong identities in a world of increasing uniformity and globalization. In his cultural criticism Mishima makes an impassioned defense of free speech, and he rails against all forms of authoritarianism and censorship. Rankin reads Mishima’s artistic project, up to and including his spectacular death, as a single, sustained lyric, an aggressive piece of performance art unfolding in multiple media. For all his rebellious energies, Mishima’s work is suffused with a sense of ending—the end of art, the end of eroticism, the end of culture, the end of the world—and it is governed by a decadent aestheticism which holds that beautiful things radiate their most intense beauty on the cusp of their destruction. Erudite and authoritative, yet written in clear, accessible prose, Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist is essential reading for all those who seek a deeper understanding of this radical and provocative figure.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099285673
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion written by Yukio Mishima and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307473112
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Five Modern No Plays written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner spirit of No and are at the same time so modern, so direct, and intelligible that they could, as he suggested, be played on a bench in Central Park. Here are five of his No plays, stunning in their contemporary nature and relevance—and finally made available again for readers to enjoy.
Author : Kimberly Jannarone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121391
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right written by Kimberly Jannarone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.
Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030783431X
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Spring Snow written by Yukio Mishima and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic of Japanese literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) and the first novel in the masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility, set in 1912 Tokyo, featuring an aspiring lawyer who believes he has met the successive reincarnations of his childhood friend. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political power. Shigekuni Honda, an aspiring lawyer and his childhood friend, Kiyoaki Matsugae, are the sons of two such families. As they come of age amidst the growing tensions between old and new, Kiyoaki is plagued by his simultaneous love for and loathing of the spirited young woman Ayakura Satoko. But Kiyoaki’s true feelings only become apparent when her sudden engagement to a royal prince shows him the magnitude of his passion—and leads to a love affair both doomed and inevitable.
Author : Naoki Inose
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
ISBN 13 : 1611720087
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Persona written by Naoki Inose and published by Stone Bridge Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the Japanese author who went from sickly youth to dedicated student of the martial arts, looking at his family life, the wartime years, and his career as a writer who advocated for traditional values.
Author : David Jortner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739123003
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance written by David Jortner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance is a collection of sixteen essays on Japanese theatre, including historical overviews of twentieth century theatre, analyses of specific productions and individuals, and consideration of the intercultural nature of modern Japanese theatre. Also included is a new translation of a 'Superkyogen' play.
Author : Jonah Salz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316395324
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book A History of Japanese Theatre written by Jonah Salz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, kabuki theatre, shingeki modern theatre, rakugo storytelling, vanguard butoh dance and media experimentation. The first part addresses traditional genres, their historical trajectories and performance conventions. Part II covers the spectrum of new genres since Meiji (1868–), and Parts III to VI provide discussions of playwriting, architecture, Shakespeare, and interculturalism, situating Japanese elements within their global theatrical context. Beautifully illustrated with photographs and prints, this history features interviews with key modern directors, an overview of historical scholarship in English and Japanese, and a timeline. A further reading list covers a range of multimedia resources to encourage further explorations.
