The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature - Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko

Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light.

About the author

Atsuko Sakaki (Ph.D., UBC, 1992), Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, authored Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction (Harvard, 1999) and Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature (Hawai'i, 2006).

Product details

• Authors: Atsuko Sakaki
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2015
• EAN: 9789004306196
• ISBN: 978-90-04-30619-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 564 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies