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- catalog abstract "Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence.".
- catalog contributor b8128742.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "Although Mishima's main literary ambition was to write philosophical novels in the tradition of Goethe and Thomas Mann, Deadly Dialectics is the first critical study to take this objective seriously: it also provides the first adequate account of Mishima's intellectual background and characteristic modes of thought and it is the first book to show the intimate and integral relation between his thought and his psychology and militant politics - or, more specifically, between his nihilism, his sexuality and his propensity to violence.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-198) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: The Mask and the Hammer -- 1. Mishima's Ambition to Write Philosophic Novels -- 2. The Influence of Nietzsche and Thomas Mann -- 3. The Making of a Nihilist -- 4. The Active/Passive Nihilist Dialectic -- 5. The Dialectics of the Final Tetralogy -- 6. Mishima's Philosophic Novels and the Japanese Literary Tradition -- 7. Mishima and the Japanese Intellectual Tradition -- 8. Mishima's Philosophic Novels in a Western Context -- 9. The Quality of Mishima's Thought -- 1. The Psychological Context of Mishima's Thought -- 2. The Psychology of Mishima's Novels -- 3. Psychology in a Japanese Context -- 4. The Sex Life of a Nihilist -- 5. Mishima's Active/Passive Psychology in a Japanese Context -- 6. The Aesthetics of Terror -- 7. The Nihilist's Will to Power -- 8. The Anti-psychology of Mishima's Last Novels -- 9. The 'Nietzschean Writer' as a Psychological Type -- 1. An Intellectual's Itch for Action -- 2. Nihilism, Morality and Politics -- 3. Nihilism in Mishima's Morality and Politics -- 4. Moral/Political Nihilism in Mishima's Novels.".
- catalog extent "225 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0824816307 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0824816315 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press,".
- catalog subject "895.6/35 20".
- catalog subject "Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Mishima, Yukio, 1925-1970 Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Nihilism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PL833.I7 Z877 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: The Mask and the Hammer -- 1. Mishima's Ambition to Write Philosophic Novels -- 2. The Influence of Nietzsche and Thomas Mann -- 3. The Making of a Nihilist -- 4. The Active/Passive Nihilist Dialectic -- 5. The Dialectics of the Final Tetralogy -- 6. Mishima's Philosophic Novels and the Japanese Literary Tradition -- 7. Mishima and the Japanese Intellectual Tradition -- 8. Mishima's Philosophic Novels in a Western Context -- 9. The Quality of Mishima's Thought -- 1. The Psychological Context of Mishima's Thought -- 2. The Psychology of Mishima's Novels -- 3. Psychology in a Japanese Context -- 4. The Sex Life of a Nihilist -- 5. Mishima's Active/Passive Psychology in a Japanese Context -- 6. The Aesthetics of Terror -- 7. The Nihilist's Will to Power -- 8. The Anti-psychology of Mishima's Last Novels -- 9. The 'Nietzschean Writer' as a Psychological Type -- 1. An Intellectual's Itch for Action -- 2. Nihilism, Morality and Politics -- 3. Nihilism in Mishima's Morality and Politics -- 4. Moral/Political Nihilism in Mishima's Novels.".
- catalog title "Deadly dialectics : sex, violence, and nihilism in the world of Yukio Mishima / Roy Starrs.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".