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This 10 page research paper examines the topic of ero-guro-nansensu or "erotic-grotesque-nonsense" movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s. At the forefront of this trend was Edogawa Rampo and the writer examines this Japanese literary genre focusing on Rampo and how two of his short stories, "The Human Chair" and "Caterpillar," epitomize the essence of ero-guro-nansensu. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Ero-Guro-Nansensu and Edogawa Rampo Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Enterprises Inc. By - properly! The ero-guro-nansensu or "erotic-grotesque-nonsense" movement in
Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself to explorations of the deviant, the bizarre and the ridiculous" (Reichert, as cited
by Nakamura 366). This body of literature was targeted primarily at teenagers and was perceived as very "avant-garde and trendy" (Nakamura 366). At the forefront of this trend was Edogawa
Rampo. The following examination of this Japanese literary genre focuses on Rampo and how two of his short stories epitomize the essence of ero-guro-nansensu. According to Maruyama Masao, ero-guro-nansensu
is "a symptom of modernization" (Tobin 22). The effect of ero-guro-nansensu, which refers to the "erotic-grotesque frivolity" that Japan associates with the West, is that it produces a "sense of
social and psychological disruption by emancipating the individual citizen willingly or unwillingly from the communal ties" that have previously found that individual, binding the individual to traditional modes of behavior
(Tobin 22). As this indicates, Maruyama argues that the contact between Japan and the West in the early twentieth century caused an "awakening of individuality" (Tobin 22). Throughout the
1920s and 1930s in Japan, ero=guro- nansensu, which was also known as simply "ero-guro," affected the aesthetics of modernizing Japan, as it influenced a diverse array of mass- cultural forms,
such as the "detective and horror novel, commercial design and soft core pornography" (Buckley 131). Influenced by the emerging fields of psychology and urban anthropology in the 1920, ero-guro-nansensu was
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