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Japanese Modernism Literature and Sports

  • 日本硏究
  • 2014, (36), pp.177-194
  • Publisher : The Center for Japanese Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 20, 2014

김옥희 1

1한국체육대학교

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ABSTRACT

Sports novels of modernism gradually disappeared after flourishing from 1930 to 1932. Why sport had been in the limelight as a motif of literature among novelists of modernism in the early 1930s, and was avoided immediately? The purpose of this thesis is to illuminate the reason and background through analyzing literary works in detail. There were chosen as the subject of analysis the sports novel In The Sports City and critique About Sports Novel, written by Abe Tomoji, representative writer of modernism. As a result, I found the limit that Abe Tomji was supposed to feel about his sports novel. He had decided not to write sports novel anymore, with introspection about that he was busy writing a love story between a sports player and a modern girl, without any social criticism. Furthermore I investigated from various sources of that time why ‘modern girl’ had appeared in the most of sports novels of early 1930s, and why love between sports player and ‘modern girl’ had become a pattern, meaning how sport and love had a strong connection. As a result, I could find that sport had been a part of ‘Erotic’ in the early 1930s, known as the time of ‘Ero-Gro-Nonsense’, and had been used as a metaphor for love with becoming ‘wonderful modern landscape’. Eventually sport had been one of the important cultural key words, and had changed the expression method of literature, and also had expanded the realm of expression of it, by being used as a literary motif.

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