Manufacturing modern Japanese literature
Subtitle: publishing, prizes, and the ascription of literary value
By: Edward Mack.
Series: Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society; Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780822346609; 9780822346722
Subjects: Literature publishing -- Japan; Japanese literature -- Publishing; Literary prizes -- Japan; Canon (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: publishing and the creation of an alternate economy of value; title: Modernity as rupture : the concentration of print capital; title: The stability of the center : Tokyo publishing and the great Kantō earthquake; title: The static canon : Kaizōsha's Complete works of contemporary Japanese literature; title: Defining and defending literary value : debates, 1919/1935; title: The dynamic canon : the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes for literature.