The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature / John Whittier Treat.
The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature / John Whittier Treat.
The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature / John Whittier Treat.
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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G 2018/5125
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Language
English
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Physical content
v, 401 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: modern Japanese literary history -- Bird-chasing Omatsu -- Midori's choice -- Sōseki kills a cat -- Narcissus in taish? -- Imperial Japan's worst writer -- Creole Japan -- Beheaded emperors and absent figures -- Reading comics/writing graffiti -- Yoshimoto Banana in the kitchen -- Mur...
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Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s, against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modernity, to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both cononical and forgotten works, the nonliterary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand...
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The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature / John Whittier Treat.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-377) and index.
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©2018
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G 2018/5125
Record Identifier
74VKV82GgKbM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV82GgKbM
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ISBN
9780226811703 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0226811700 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780226545134 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022654513X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
DDC
895.609
MMS ID
991024186001102626
