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Manufacturing modern Japanese literature : publishing, prizes, and the ascription of literary value / Edward Mack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mack, Edward Thomas.
- Series:
- Asia-Pacific.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature publishing--Japan.
- Literature publishing.
- Japanese literature--Publishing.
- Japanese literature.
- Literary prizes--Japan.
- Literary prizes.
- Canon (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A history of book production and consumption in Japan showing how the Tokyo-based publishing industry manufactured the very concept of modern Japanese literature.
- Contents:
- Introduction: publishing and the creation of an alternate economy of value
- Modernity as rupture : the concentration of print capital
- The stability of the center : Tokyo publishing and the great Kanto earthquake
- The static canon : Kaizosha's Complete works of contemporary Japanese literature
- Defining and defending literary value : debates, 1919/1935
- The dynamic canon : the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes for literature.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065193
- 9781283065191
- 1283065193
- 9780822391654
- 0822391651
- OCLC:
- 662618995
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