Edward Mack

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

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of Japanese publishing in the interwar period, addressing the material production of literary texts and the creation of literary value.

Produktdetails

• Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346722
• ISBN-10: 0822346729
• Artikelnr.: 30367540

Autorenporträt

Edward Mack is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

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