Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan

1. Introduction
Ikuho Amano

2. Immature Decadents: The Waste of Useless Men in Indulgences—Two Novellas by Oguri Fūyō and Iwano Hōmei
Ikuho Amano

3. The Decadent Consumption of the Self: Naturalist Aestheticism in Morita Sōhei’s Sooty Smoke
Ikuho Amano

4. Decadent Returnees: The Dialogic Labor of Sensibility in Nagai Kafū’s Sneers and Ueda Bin’s The Vortex
Ikuho Amano

5. Taishō Malaise as Decadence: Self-Reclusion and Creative Labor in Satō Haruo’s A Pastoral Spleen and Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s A Fool’s Love
Ikuho Amano

6. Decadence Begins with Physical Labor: The Postwar Use of the Body in Sakaguchi Ango’s The Idiot and Tamura Taijirō’s Gateway to the Flesh
Ikuho Amano

7. Decadence as Generosity: Squander and Oblivion in Mishima Yukio’s Spring Snow
Ikuho Amano

8. Capitalist Generosity: Decadence as Giving and Receiving in Shimada Masahiko’s Decadent Sisters
Ikuho Amano

9. Conclusion
Ikuho Amano

Nyckelord: Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Asian Literature, Asian Languages, Fiction