Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature
War narration is inseparably linked to the image of death, which is a very sensitive issue. This paper shows how in two different cultures writers have attempted to turn death into something good, heroic and even beautiful. I am concerned with how death in wartime can arouse an aesthetic response. I...
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| description | War narration is inseparably linked to the image of death, which is a very sensitive issue. This paper shows how in two different cultures writers have attempted to turn death into something good, heroic and even beautiful. I am concerned with how death in wartime can arouse an aesthetic response. In discussing the representation of death in the war literature of Poland and Japan, the long-standing question of aesthetic attitudes to the traumatic experience of war in the twentieth century is raised. This paper draws on texts related to the Second World War in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-739963515fdf4d52a7f3103000f2d81f2022-12-22T01:30:03ZengThe International Academic ForumIAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship2187-06082187-06082014-11-01319311310.22492/ijl.3.1.04Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War LiteratureOlga Bogdańska0University of Lodz, PolandWar narration is inseparably linked to the image of death, which is a very sensitive issue. This paper shows how in two different cultures writers have attempted to turn death into something good, heroic and even beautiful. I am concerned with how death in wartime can arouse an aesthetic response. In discussing the representation of death in the war literature of Poland and Japan, the long-standing question of aesthetic attitudes to the traumatic experience of war in the twentieth century is raised. This paper draws on texts related to the Second World War in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region.https://iafor.org/journal/iafor-journal-of-literature-and-librarianship/volume-3-issue-1/article-4/deathwar literaturecomparative literatureaestheticization |
| spellingShingle | Olga Bogdańska Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship death war literature comparative literature aestheticization |
| title | Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature |
| title_full | Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature |
| title_fullStr | Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature |
| title_short | Terrible Beauty: Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature |
| title_sort | terrible beauty aesthetics of death in polish and japanese war literature |
| topic | death war literature comparative literature aestheticization |
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