Abstract
Part 1 lost garden - beginnings of a mythic alternative: festival days - The sound of Waves repletion and rhythm - Prize Stock the sacrifice of the innocent writ large - Pluck the Buds, Shoot the Kids. Part 2 wasteland of sex: eroticism in postwar literature absence and desire - Confessions of a Mask and Our Era from fantasy to reality - The Locked Room and The Swimming Man. Part 3 Cries in the wasteland - sexual violence: sex begets murder - Thirst for Love and Outcries the intellectual takes action - Madame de Sade and The Sexual Human affirmitave visions - A Personal Matter and Patriotism sexuality and the role of women. Part 4 In search of the garden: when you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion the bitter taste for glory - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the summer had passed them by -Our Era apocalypse now - The Floodwaters have Come unto my Soul. Part 5 Death and the Emperor - the politics of betrayal: the Emperor and postwar Japan oh, my Emperor! - Patriotism and Seventeen from irony to madness - Runway Horses and The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away. Part 6 final quest: you can learn a lot from legends - The Silent Cry the empty garden - The Sea of Fertility. Part 7 Mishima, OE, and modern Japan.
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