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Informationen zum Autor Maeda Ai Klappentext The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic. Zusammenfassung The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature! culture! and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda! arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Foreword: A Walker in the City: Maeda Ai and the Mapping of Urban Space / Harry Harootunian xi Introduction: Refiguring the Modern: Maeda Ai and the City / James A Fujii 1 LIGHT CITY, DARK CITY: VISUALIZING THE MODERN>1. Utopia of the Prisonhouse: A Reading of In Darkest Tokyo / Seiji M. Lippit and James A. Fujii 21 2. The Panorama of Enlightenment / Henry D. Smith II 65 3. The Spirits of Abandoned Gardens: On Nagai Kafu’s “The Fox” / William F. Sibley 91 PLAY, SPACE, AND MASS CULTURE 4. Their Time as Children: A Study of Higuchi Ichiyo’s Growing Up (Takekurabe) / Edward Fowler 109 5. Asakusa as Theater Kawabata Yasunari’s The Crimson Gang of Asakusa / Edward Fowler 145 6. The Development of Popular Fiction in the Late Taisho Era: Increasing Readership of Women’s Magazines / Rebecca Copeland 163 TEXT, SPACE, VISUALITY 7. From Communal Performance to Solitary Reading: The Rise of the Modern Japanese Reader / James A. Fujii 223 8. Modern Literature and the World of Printing / Richard Okada 255 CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN URBAN SPACE 9. Ryuhoku in Paris / Matthew Fraleigh 275 10. Berlin 1888: Mori Ogai’s “Dancing Girl” / Leslie Pincus 295 11. In the Recesses of the High City: On Soseki’s Gate / William F. Sibley 329 Afterword / Wiliam F. Sibley 351 Contributors 375 Index 377
