{"product_id":"when-our-eyes-no-longer-see-9780674027947","title":"When Our Eyes No Longer See","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the writers and poets of early-20th-century Japan, literary modernism was a crisis of perception before it was a crisis of representation. \u003ci\u003eWhen Our Eyes No Longer See\u003c\/i\u003e portrays an extraordinary moment in the history of this perceptual crisis and in Japanese literature during the 1920s and 1930s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his fascinating new study...Gregory Golley offers new perspectives on the ethical dimensions of twentieth-century literature by his rigorous consideration of both the art and the science of [Miyazawa] Kenji's work, together with that of his fellow members of Japan's modernist generation, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Yokomitsu Riichi...Golley's study makes for compelling reading and represents a major contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Japanese modernism. -- William O. Gardner * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003eGolley's book is eloquent and erudite, offering subtle critiques of our understanding of the literary history of Japan in the 1920s and 1930s through both a fine-grained historical account of the discourses of the \"new scientific realism\" in prewar Japan and through a series of rereadings of some of the major figures of the interwar period. -- Jonathan Zwicker * Journal of Asian Studies *","brand":"Harvard University, Asia Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403533754711,"sku":"9780674027947","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674027947.jpg?v=1730483751","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-our-eyes-no-longer-see-9780674027947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}