Writing Technology in Meiji Japan
Subtitle: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780674088412
Subjects: Japanese literature, history and criticism; Literature and technology; Literature and society; Popular culture, japan; Mass media and culture
Description: "Boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. This book represents the first systematic study of the ways in which media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late 19th to early 20th century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature"--