The rise and fall of modern Japanese literature /
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 pa...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
ISBN: | 9780226545271 022654527X |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of 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
- Murakami Haruki and multiple personality
- Conclusion: Takahashi Gen'ichirō's disappearing future.