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The Survival of Sade in French Literature of the 1950s
Today, almost two centuries after his death, Sade still stands for absolute evil. He cannot, however, be reduced to this role. In various ways, he makes his presence felt in literature and philosophy. He is at...
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Samuel Beckett’s Funerary Sculpture
In February 1937, Samuel Beckett visited Würzburg cathedral and was particularly struck by the funerary statues he saw there. A number of these statues were made by a sculptor known as the ‘Wolfskehlmeister’. ...
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Jacques Roubaud’s Rejection of Japoniste Influence: Tokyo infra-ordinaire
In the spring of 1689, the Japanese poet and teacher Matsuo Bashō sold his house. He left his home in the capital city, Edo, and departed with one companion on a long journey into the wild territories of north...
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Jules Laforgue, Hartmann and Schopenhauer: From Influence to Rewriting
Like a number of his contemporaries, Jules Larforgue (1860–87) was open to the influence of Arthur Schopenhauer and the latter’s disciple, Eduard von Hartmann. However, in Laforgue’s particular case, this doub...
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Written in Ash: The Education of a Reconstructionist
Yamamoto Sanehiko’s career developed in ways that were grounded in the peculiarities of the age in which he lived, an age that saw Japan ascend politically and economically to join the world powers only to set...
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Shouldering Giants: The Presentation of Western Intellectual and Cultural Elite to Interwar Japan
Among the contributions made by Yamamoto Sanehiko to interwar Japan, one of the least known and inadequately documented was his role in bringing to Japan for lecture tours some of the West’s most notable figur...
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Literary Interventions: Yamamoto Sanehiko’s Role in Sino-Japanese Literary Exchange
In the interwar period, against a background of increasing tensions, a lively exchange developed between the Chinese and Japanese literary communities. A number of writers and cultural figures contributed to t...
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Figuring Influence: Some Influential Metaphors in Derrida, Valéry and Freud
In the first year of the last decade of his life, Paul Valéry contributed a three-page preface to an unusual collection of essays. The slim brochure, commissioned and published by Source Perrier, aimed to exto...
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Last Man Standing: Courting Revival in Postwar Japan
Japan’s surrender in August 1945 did not signal the cession of challenges for Yamamoto Sanehiko but merely provided a temporary reprieve. In fact, for a short time after the war, Yamamoto’s fortunes seemed to...
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Voltaire, Dante and the Dynamics of Influence
Writing in 1927 about the influence of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poetry on his own, Paul Valéry remarks: ‘Il n’est pas de mot qui vienne plus aisément ni plus souvent sous la plume de la critique que le mot d’influence
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‘Le Cycle de Nestor’: Patrick Pécherot’s Rewriting of Léo Malet
The history of the roman noir in France is, from its beginnings, one of influence. During the German Occupation of 1940–1944 American films and novels were banned. Nevertheless, American hard-boiled detective fic...
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Ghosts of Influence? Spectrality in the Novels of Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq states that her work aims to ‘questionner le vide’ (‘question the void’), a process that involves the concomitant exploration of ‘l’absence à soi-même’ (‘absence from oneself’), which is, fo...
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Text, Image and Music: Paul Valéry’s Melodrama Sémiramis and the Influence of the Ballets Russes
Paul Valéry, famous as a poet, essayist and political figure, certainly occupies a special place in French and European culture. He was remarkable as a literary phenomenon linking the nineteenth and twentieth ...
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Introduction
There was a ritual that Yamamoto Sanehiko would perform at his father’s insistence growing up in Kagoshima Prefecture whereby he would memorize snippets of classical Chinese texts by inscribing the kanji characte...
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The Comprehensive Magazine Kaizō: Giving Voice to the Opposition and Challenging the Status Quo in Interwar Japan
In 1919, using much of the earnings from the Kuhara Mining venture in Siberia, Yamamoto launched the magazine Kaiz ō (Reconstruction). Kaizō joined other magazines of the period such as Taiyō (The Sun) and Chūō k...
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Power to the People: Kaizōsha’s Enpon Gamble and the Making of a Publishing Revolution
Like all successful entrepreneurs, Yamamoto Sanehiko proved to be, in the course of his long career, a man never at a loss. In a period in Japan’s history in which public figures were confronted by a formidab...
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Embracing the Danse Macabre: The Politics and Political Career of Yamamoto Sanehiko
Yamamoto Sanehiko is remembered primarily today as the publisher of one of the leading progressive magazines of the interwar period and as the publishing impresario whose company spawned a revolution with the...
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Introduction: Influence: Form, Subjects, Time
Writing never takes place in a vacuum, nor does reading. Both acts are always mediated by the writing or the reading of other texts, be they scripted, visual or otherwise symbolic. This much seems clear. If we...
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Roland Barthes’s Ghosts: Photobiographical Influence and Legacies
Roland Barthes published a number of texts on photography from the 1950s onwards. In Mythologies (published between 1954 and 1956),1 ‘Le Message photographique’ (‘The Photographic Message’, 1961), ‘Rhétorique de ...
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Epilogue: Yamamoto Sanehiko’s Interwar Legacy in Postwar Japan
Given the complexity of postwar Japanese culture and society, it would be foolhardy to suggest that the dramatic cultural and social developments that occurred beginning in the autumn of 1945 and extending thr...
