Mack / Chow / Dutton Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature

Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9165-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 331 Seiten

Reihe: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society

A history of book production and consumption in Japan showing how the Tokyo-based publishing industry manufactured the very concept of modern Japanese literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mack, Edward

Chow, Rey

Dutton, Michael

Harootunian, Harry

Morris, Rosalind C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Publishing and the Creation of an Alternative Economy of Value 1

1. Modernity as Rupture: The Concentration of Print Capital 17

2. The Stability of the Center: Tokyo Publishing and the Great Kanto Earthquake 51

3. The Static Canon: Kaizosha's Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature 91

4. Defining and Defending Literary Value: Debates, 1919–1935 139

5. The Dynamic Canon: The Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature 181

Epilogue 223

Appendix 237

Notes 243

Works Cited 297

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Mack is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Washington.