The Art of Necrophilia: Analogies between the Composition of Mishima Yukio’s Novel "The Sea of Fertility" and the Composition of the Japanese Classical Nō Drama

Authors

Joanna Wolska-Lenarczyk
Jagiellonian University, Kraków

Synopsis

Author Biography

Joanna Wolska-Lenarczyk, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

graduated from the Department of Japanese Studies, Jagiellonian University, Cracow and received her Ph.D. (2012) at her Alma Mater (Ph.D. dissertation devoted to Mishima Yukio’s tetralogy The Sea of Fertility). She was a research fellow at the Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University (2007-2009). She specializes in modern Japanese literature, especially of Mishima Yukio’s works. An author of the book (The Epiphany of Emptiness. A Vision of Beautiful Death in Mishima Yukio’s Hōjō no umi) and many essays on Japanese literature and culture.
A lecturer of Japanese language and literature at the Jagiellonian University (2009-2018). Currently she teaches Japanese at the Japanese Language School (Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology).

Published

9 December 2019

How to Cite

Wolska-Lenarczyk, J. (2019) “The Art of Necrophilia: Analogies between the Composition of Mishima Yukio’s Novel ‘The Sea of Fertility’ and the Composition of the Japanese Classical Nō Drama”, in Duc-Harada, P., Głuch, D., and Sonoyama, S. (eds.) Japanese Civilization: Tokens and Manifestations. Poland: Księgarnia Akademicka Publishing. doi:10.12797/978838138072.17.