Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016.
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G 2016/1835
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English
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xv, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
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still image
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction -- Desire and deferral: Japanese naturalism in the countryside -- A utopia of self-help: imagining rural Japan in the novels of ambition -- Topographies of value: city, gift, and money in Natsume Soseki -- Winds of scandal: female self-fashioning in the metropolis -- A genealogy of fail...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2016.
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"Reconsiders the rise of the novel in Japan in the Meiji Era by connecting the genre to new discourses on social mobility, ambition, and success. Situates the modern novel in a larger context of modernity, as a literary form engaged with a rapidly changing society"--
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Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
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Worldly success and the Japanese novel
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393
Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-242) and index.
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G 2016/1835
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74VKVpQyrwlg
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0674659791
9780674659797
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895.63/42
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991023988307502626
