Nathan Shockey

The Typographic Imagination

Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780231194297
• ISBN-10: 0231194293
• Artikelnr.: 66742832

Autorenporträt

Nathan Shockey

Inhaltsangabe

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