Typographic Imagination - Reading and Writing in Japans Age of Modern Print Media

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. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization and Translation
Introduction: The World Made Type
Part I: The Making of a Modern Media Ecology
1. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire
2. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity
3. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City
Part II: Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era
4. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse
5. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism
6. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement
Conclusion: Ends, Echoes, and Inversions
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

Nathan Shockey

Summary

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. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan Shockey
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2023
• EAN: 9780231194297
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19429-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 20th Century, Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary Criticism