Shockey The Typographic Imagination

Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-55074-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shockey, Nathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization and Translation
Introduction: The World Made Type
Part I: The Making of a Modern Media Ecology
1. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire
2. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity
3. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City
Part II: Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era
4. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse
5. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism
6. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement
Conclusion: Ends, Echoes, and Inversions
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Shockey is assistant professor of Japanese at Bard College.