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Author:

Jacobowitz, Seth.

Title:

Writing technology in Meiji Japan : a media history of modern Japanese literature and visual culture / Seth Jacobowitz.

Publisher:

Harvard University Asia Center,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

pages cm.
xii, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Japanese literature--1868---History and criticism.
Literature and technology--Japan--History--19th century.
Literature and technology--Japan--History--20th century.
Literature and society--Japan--History--19th century.
Literature and society--Japan--History--20th century.
Popular culture--Japan--History--19th century.
Popular culture--Japan--History--20th century.
Mass media and culture--Japan--History--19th century.
Mass media and culture--Japan--History--20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"Boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. This book represents the first systematic study of the ways in which media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late 19th to early 20th century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 387.

ISBN:

0674088417 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780674088412 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904011991

LCCN:

2015005307

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)