The Typographic Imagination

Zusatztext The Typographic Imagination is an innovative study whose strengths include scrupulous scholarship! clear prose! and lucid analysis. The book makes a substantial contribution to the field of modern Japanese literary and cultural studies. I recommend it with enthusiasm! Informationen zum Autor Nathan Shockey is associate professor of Japanese at Bard College. Klappentext Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture. Zusammenfassung Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments A Note on Romanization and Translation Introduction: The World Made Type Part I: The Making of a Modern Media Ecology 1. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire 2. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity 3. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City Part II: Prose! Language! and Politics in the Type Era 4. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse 5. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform! Romanization! and Esperantism 6. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement Conclusion: Ends! Echoes! and Inversions Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Nathan Shockey is associate professor of Japanese at Bard College.

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Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture.

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Acknowledgments
A Note on Romanization and Translation
Introduction: The World Made Type
Part I: The Making of a Modern Media Ecology

1. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire
2. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity
3. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City
   Part II: Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era
4. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse
5. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism
6. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement
   Conclusion: Ends, Echoes, and Inversions
   Notes
   Selected Bibliography
   Index