Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature - Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value

Informationen zum Autor Edward Mack Klappentext A history of Japanese publishing in the interwar period, addressing the material production of literary texts and the creation of literary value. Zusammenfassung A history of book production and consumption in Japan showing how the Tokyo-based publishing industry manufactured the very concept of modern Japanese literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Publishing and the Creation of an Alternative Economy of Value 1 1. Modernity as Rupture: The Concentration of Print Capital 17 2. The Stability of the Center: Tokyo Publishing and the Great Kanto Earthquake 51 3. The Static Canon: Kaizosha's Complete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature 91 4. Defining and Defending Literary Value: Debates, 1919-1935 139 5. The Dynamic Canon: The Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature 181 Epilogue 223 Appendix 237 Notes 243 Works Cited 297 Index 311

Product details

• Authors: Edward Mack, Edward Mack
• Assisted by: Rey Chow (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2010
• EAN: 9780822346609
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4660-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches