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1 Online-Ressource (xi, 314 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780231550741
Series Statement:
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Content:
In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed through the circulation of printed language as a mass-market commodity. The Typographic Imagination explores how this commercial print revolution transformed Japan’s media ecology and traces the possibilities and pitfalls of type as a force for radical social change.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. Charting the relationships among prose, politics, and print capitalism, he considers the meanings and functions of print as a staple commodity and as a ubiquitous and material medium for discourse and thought. Drawing on extensive archival research, The Typographic Imagination brings into conversation a wide array of materials, including bookseller trade circulars, language reform debates, works of experimental fiction, photo gazetteers, socialist periodicals, Esperanto primers, declassified censorship documents, and printing press strike bulletins. Combining the rigorous close analysis of Japanese literary studies with transdisciplinary methodologies from media studies, book history, and intellectual history, The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformations of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture
Content:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION AND TRANSLATION -- Introduction: The World Made Type -- PART I. The Making of a Modern Media Ecology -- Chapter One. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire -- Chapter Two. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity -- Chapter Three. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City -- PART II. Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era -- Chapter Four. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse -- Chapter Five. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism -- Chapter Six. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement -- Conclusion: Ends, Echoes, and Inversions -- NOTES -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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restricted access online access with authorization star
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231194280
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Shockey, Nathan The typographic imagination New York : Columbia University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780231194280
Language:
English
Keywords:
Japan
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Druckmedien
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Lesen
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Literatur
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Geschichte 1894-1930
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Japan
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Buchhandel
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Buchdruck
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Typografie
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Lesekultur
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Geistesleben
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Geschichte 1894-1930
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Author information:
Shockey, Nathan
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