{"product_id":"manufacturing-modern-japanese-literature-9780822346609","title":"Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA history of book production and consumption in Japan showing how the Tokyo-based publishing industry manufactured the very concept of modern Japanese literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a must read book for people who are studying about Japanese literature or people interested to know more about the birth of the modern Japanese publishing industry. The author researched the subject thoroughly and gives us deep understanding of how the Japanese modern literature was born. . . . [I]t is very enjoyable to read. Even each footnote is packed with insightful details that give more vivid picture of the ‘manufacturing’ process of modern literature. It is an excellent and unique English language resource for an important period of Japan’s literature history.” - Naoko Maeda Rodolitz, \u003ci\u003ePublishing Research Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“. . . thoughtful and careful. . . . [A]n . . . excellent work of scholarship which pulls together analytical strands from print culture and literature and offers a meaningful contribution to English-language scholarship. I heartily recommend it.” - Andrew Kamei-Dyche,\u003ci\u003e SHARP News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Modern Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling sociological critique of the institution of literature in early twentieth-century Japan. . . . The problems Mack deals with in Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature remain urgent concerns today, and his compelling study gives us some of the tools we need to grapple with them effectively.” - Michael K. Bourdaghs, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Japanese Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Edward Mack pulls the Japanese literary field out of the regressive myth of autonomous art and into the realms of social discourse and material practice. He compels us to reconsider the role of literary production and publishing in constructing concepts of cultural authority, national identity, and empire. \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Modern Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, rewarding work.”—\u003cb\u003eAnn Sherif\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eJapan’s Cold War: Media, Literature, and the Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Modern Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling sociological critique of the institution of literature in early twentieth-century Japan. . . . The problems Mack deals with in Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature remain urgent concerns today, and his compelling study gives us some of the tools we need to grapple with them effectively.” -- Michael K. Bourdaghs * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“This book is a must read book for people who are studying about Japanese literature or people interested to know more about the birth of the modern Japanese publishing industry. The author researched the subject thoroughly and gives us deep understanding of how the Japanese modern literature was born. . . . [I]t is very enjoyable to read. Even each footnote is packed with insightful details that give more vivid picture of the ‘manufacturing’ process of modern literature. It is an excellent and unique English language resource for an important period of Japan’s literature history.” -- Naoko Maeda Rodolitz * Publishing Research Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Modern Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to deepening our knowledge and understanding of modern Japanese literature in two equally significant ways: on the one hand, it provides a wonderfully detailed study of two of the most powerful mechanisms for ascribing literary value in modern Japan; more generally, it reminds us that behind the discursive superstructure we call 'modern' 'Japanese' 'literature' there is a material base that needs to be studied, if we are to arrive at a historically-sound understanding of these concepts.\" -- Gian-Piero Persiani * East Asian Publishing and Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Publishing and the Creation of an Alternative Economy of Value 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Modernity as Rupture: The Concentration of Print Capital 17\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Stability of the Center: Tokyo Publishing and the Great Kanto Earthquake 51\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Static Canon: Kaizosha's \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eComplete Works of Contemporary Japanese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e 91\u003cbr\u003e 4. Defining and Defending Literary Value: Debates, 1919–1935 139\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Dynamic Canon: The Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature 181\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 223\u003cbr\u003e Appendix 237\u003cbr\u003e Notes 243\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 297\u003cbr\u003e Index 311","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406058430807,"sku":"9780822346609","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822346609.jpg?v=1730494390","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/manufacturing-modern-japanese-literature-9780822346609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}