Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

Auteur

Filippo Cervelli is Lecturer in Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture at SOAS University of London.

Texte du rabat

This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction.

Contenu

Introduction. The supremacy and the tyranny of the immediate 1. Immediacy in contemporary culture 2. Immediacy in literature: Takahashi Gen'ichir 3. Immediacy in literature II: Takahashi, Taguchi, Hirano 4. Immediacy in popular culture Epilogue. Ties beyond immediacy