Urban Planetary and Tokyo Modernity - Dwelling in Passing

This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajir¿'s urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called "accidental beauty."

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Encounters with the Planetary: Mori Ogai's Cartographic Writing
Chapter 2: The View from the Near-Suburb: Tayama Katai's Musashino
Chapter 3: From Production to Attitude: Cartographic Heterotopia in Kafu's Fair-Weather Clogs
Chapter 4: Of Modernology and Parks: Kon Wajiro's Theory of Urban Ecologies
Chapter 5: The Urban Voyant in the New Guidebook to Greater Tokyo

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Christophe Thouny is associate professor of visual culture and media studies, modern literature, and critical theory at Ritsumeikan University.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christophe Thouny
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666929300
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-930-0
• Seiten: 284
• Serie: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Japan, Tokyo, Japanese, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, c 1910 to c 1919, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Urban communities, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000