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Kojin Karatani Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
- Publication Name
- Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
- Title
- Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
- Translator
- Brett de Bary
- Contributor
- Brett de Bary (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0822313235
- EAN
- 9780822313236
- ISBN
- 9780822313236
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Year
- 1993
- Release Date
- 28/05/1993
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 12 Oz
- Series
- Post-Contemporary Interventions
- Item Length
- 9.8in
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Topic
- Asian / Japanese
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current cultural criticism in the West. It is both the boldest critique of modern Japanese literary history to appear in the post-war era and a major theoretical intervention, which calls into question the idea of modernity that informs Western consciousness. In a sweeping reinterpretation of nineteenth-and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Karatani Kojin forces a reconsideration of the very assumptions underlying our concepts of modernity. In his analysis, such familiar terms as origin, modern, literature, and the state reveal themselves to be ideological constructs. Karatani weaves many separate strands into an argument that exposes what has been hidden in both Japanese and Western accounts of the development of modern culture. Among these strands are: the "discovery" of landscape in painting and literature and its relation to the inwardness of individual consciousness; the similar "discovery" in Japanese drama of the naked face as another kind of landscape produced by interiority; the challenge to the dominance of Chinese characters in writing; the emergence of confessional literature as an outgrowth of the repression of sexuality and the body; the conversion of the samurai class to Christianity; the mythologizing of tuberculosis, cancer, and illness in general as a producer of meaning; and the "discovery" of "the child" as an independent category of human being. A work that will be important beyond the confines of literary studies, Karatani's analysis challenges basic Western presumptions of theoretical centrality and originality and disturbs the binary opposition of the "West" to its so-called "other." Origins of Modern Japanese Literature should be read by all those with an interest in the development of cultural concepts and in the interrelating factors that have determined modernity.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822313235
ISBN-13
9780822313236
eBay Product ID (ePID)
318362
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Asian / Japanese
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
12 Oz
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"I have hopes that Karatani's book--one of those infrequent moments in which a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of full national and historical statement--will also have a fundamental impact on literary criticism in the West. . . . For Origins has some lessons for us about critical pluralism, in addition to its principal message, which turns on that old and new topic of modernity itself."--Fredric Jameson, from the Preface, Karatani's ear for anecdotes makes the book more than a dry theoretical exercise. For the English edition, Brett de Bary and her team of co-translators add background information, and an entirely new essay by Karatani, 'The Extinction of Genre,' is included. This additional material makes the translation worth a look even for those who can read the original., "I have hopes that Karatani's book--one of those infrequent moments in which a rare philosophical intelligence rises to the occasion of full national and historical statement-will also have a fundamental impact on literary criticism in the West. . . . For Origins has some lessons for us about critical pluralism, in addition to its principal message, which turns on that old and new topic of modernity itself."-Fredric Jameson, from the Preface
Publication Name
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Table of Content
Foreword: In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities / Fredric Jameson vii Introduction 1 1. The Discovery of Landscape (translated by Brett de Bary) 11 2. The Discovery of Interiority (translated by Brett de Bary) 45 3. Confession as a System (translated by Brett de Bary) 76 4. Sickness as Meaning (translated by Yukari Kawahara and Robert Steen) 97 5. The Discovery of the Child (translated by Ayako Kano and Eiko Elliott) 114 6. On the Power to Construction (translated by Ayako Kano and Joseph Murphy) 136 Materials Added to the English Edition (translated by Brett de Bary) 7. The Extinction of Genres (1991) 175 Karatani Kojin's Afterword to the Japanese Paperback Edition of Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1988) 185 Karatani Kojin's Afterword to the English Edition (1991) 190 Notes 197 Glossary 209 Index 217
Copyright Date
1993
Lccn
92-033670
Dewey Decimal
895.6090042
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Dewey Edition
20
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