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Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Kojin Karatani
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Description for Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
Paperback. Translator(s): Bary, Brett De. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 330.
Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, 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.
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Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, 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.
... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822313236
SKU
V9780822313236
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About Kojin Karatani
Kōjin Karatani is Professor of Humanities at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. Brett de Bary is Professor of Japanese Literature at Cornell University.
Reviews for Origins of Modern Japanese Literature
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more