Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 286 pages)
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Illustrationen
Ausgabe:
2014
ISBN:
9781350024922
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9781350024892
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9781350024908
Serie:
SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan
Inhalt:
"The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved. As the printed word became a crucial form of entertainment for an increasingly literate public in early 20th-century Japan, the publishing industry developed by leaps and bounds. This study illustrates how the industry exerted forces strong enough to influence the appearance and substance of literary output. Touching upon a wide array of key industry players as well as authors and their works, Kawana takes up previously neglected issues such as the materiality of texts, the role of editors and advertising campaigns, the interplay between literature and other media and the creation and dissemination of larger cultural fantasies tied to literary consumption. She stresses the agency and creativity with which readers engaged literary works, from unintentional misreadings of propaganda literature to innovative adaptations of canonical texts in visual media, culminating in the practice of literary tourism. Moving beyond close reading of texts to look at their historical context - the rise of literacy and social mobility in the Meiji period, the redistribution of leisure time and the growth of unemployment in the Taisho period, and wartime censorship and the subsequent economic boom in the Showa period - the book will appeal not only to scholars and students of modern Japanese literature but also those studying the history of the book and modern Japanese cultural history more broadly" --
Inhalt:
Mass-produced must-haves: the enpon boom, cultural inflation, and advertising battles -- Reading beyond the lines: young readers and wartime reading practices -- Murder he wrote: textbooks, visual adaptations, and critique policiere in Natsume Siseki's Kokoro -- Authorship and loose canons: media mix, visual adaptation, and literary success -- Literary ambulation: tourism, author worship, and hunting for the past -- Conclusion: copyright, the commons, and guardians against gridlock
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350024915
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Kawana, Sari The uses of literature in modern Japan London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 ISBN 9781350024915
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1350024910
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Komparatistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen/Literaturen
Schlagwort(e):
Japan
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Leseverhalten
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Buchproduktion
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Geschichte 1900-2000
DOI:
10.5040/9781350024922
Mehr zum Autor:
Kawana, Sari
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