A Sense of the City - Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879-1959)

In A Sense of the City, Follaco examines Nagai Kafū's (1879-1959) urban representation, both at home and abroad, to define his position within the context of pre-war Japanese literature while touching upon crucial issues of modernity.

About the author

Gala Maria Follaco, Ph.D. (2012), "L'Orientale" University of Naples, is Research Fellow of Japanese Studies at that University. She has translated the works of several Japanese writers and published articles on urban representation in modern and contemporary Japanese literature.

Product details

• Authors: Gala Maria Follaco
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2017
• EAN: 9789004345379
• ISBN: 978-90-04-34537-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: East Asian Comparative Literat
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies