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Your search for: mishima AND suicide


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Books on: mishima suicide

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Journal Articles on: mishima suicide

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Magazine Articles on: mishima suicide

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Newspaper Articles on: mishima suicide

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    Japanese Author's Despair Prophetic: But Suicide Tainted Legacy of Mishima
    Newspaper article by Willis Witter; The Washington Times, May 3, 1996
    Subjects: 
    Japan
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...despair prophetic: But suicide tainted legacy of Mishima by Willis Witter TOKYO...beyond the grave, Yukio Mishima continues to haunt Japan...year or so before his suicide," said Takeo Okuno...literary critic who knew Mishima for more than two decades...
     
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    Seeking out the Sword of Truth
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 27, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Books--Book reviews
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...THE first I heard of Yukio Mishima was his spectacular suicide in 1970, meant as a noble and...With his private cadet corps, Mishima took over the Japanese army...that, before seppuku, Mishima lightly rouged his cheeks so...
     
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    Putting the Samurai Myth to the Sword ..... REVIEW
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 14, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Books--Book reviews
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...165 0870) ..... Yukio Mishima, nominated several times for...his guts and committed ritual suicide. Hara-kiri is supposed to...Then there was the fact that Mishima conducted his seppuku (as...suicide itself was inept. Mishima pushed the blade in too far...
     
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    De Sade's Easy to Beat; THEATRE
    Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 22, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Madame de Sade (Play), Theater
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...hating pervert. Japanese playwright Mishima, who evidently shared De Sades exhibitionist streak - his botched attempt at ritual suicide with a samurai sword in front of hundreds...convert to les liaisons dangereuses, Mishima leaves me both unconvinced and, worse...
     
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    Sex, Drugs and Frocks but Debate Gets the Whip-Hand with De Sade; FIRST NIGHT
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 19, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Madame de Sade (Play)
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...women baldly narrate their lives and give laboured vent to their dullish feelings. Mishima, a major 20th century Japanese writer who committed a grisly form of suicide in 1970, seeks to persuade us that sado-masochism, in some shapes and forms...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: mishima suicide

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    Mishima, Yukio
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...born into a samurai family. Mishima wrote novels, short stories...himself entirely to writing. Mishima and the youthful members of...the Japanese constitution, Mishima committed ritual suicide ( seppuku ). See biographies...
     
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    Kawabata, Yasunari
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Nobel Prize in Literature. Four years later, in declining health and probably depressed by the suicide of his friend Yukio Mishima , he committed suicide. See his Nobel Prize speech, Japan the Beautiful and Myself (tr. 1969); study by G. B...
     
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    Hara-Kiri
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...traditional Japanese form of honorable suicide, also known by its Chinese equivalent...connection with the death, in 1970, of Mishima , the well-known novelist and rightist political leader. See bushido , kamikaze , suicide . For detailed accounts of hara-kiri...
     

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