The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader : Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobowitz, Seth, editor.

Moore, Aaron William, 1977- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan.

SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Japan--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Japan.

Japan--Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (251 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

A much-needed English translation of writings by one of Japan's major 20th-century cultural critics, Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke, supported by a wealth of critical essays covering key areas.

Contents:

Editors' Introduction: Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke and Modern Japan's Mass Culture

Short Stories

1. The Artificial Human, Seth Jacobowitz (Apr. 1928)

2. The Devil's Altar, Rebecca Suter (Jan. 1927)

3. A Night at the Zoo, Seth Jacobowitz (Oct. 1928)

4. This Is How I Died! Seth Jacobowitz (Jun. 1929)

5. Mystery Woman, Gabriel Fernandes (Jan. 1932)

The Essays

I. Social Criticism and the Cultural Sciences

6. The Embodiment of the Modern Era, Yingzi Feng (Jan. 1929)

7. The Social Basis of Modernism, Yingzi Feng (Mar. 1929)

8. The Problem of the Cultural Sciences, Christopher Perkins (Jan. 1927)

9. The Limits of So-Called 'Scientific Criticism', Edwin Michielsen (Nov. 1930)

10. The Objective of the Women's Movement, Aaron William Moore (Aug. 1922)

11. The Feminisation of Culture, Jorinde Wels (Apr. 1926)

12. The Social Duty of Youth Groups, Aaron William Moore (n.d.)

II. Literary Theory and Proletarian Culture

13. Literature of the Fourth Class, Edwin Michielsen (Nov. 1921)

14. The Arts of the Proletariat, Edwin Michielsen (Jun. 1922)

15. The Scope of What I Can Know, Christopher Perkins (Jan. 1923)

16. Self-Reflection, Christopher Perkins (Oct. 1925)

17. The Essence of Literature, Parts 1 and 2, James Dorsey (Mar. 1927)

18. Theorising Depictions of Psychology in Fiction, Aaron William Moore (Apr. 1929)

19. Political Value and Artistic Value: A Re-examination of Marxist Literary Theory, Stefano Romagnoli (Apr. 1929)

III. Popular Literature and Genre Fiction

20. The Genius of Popular Literature, Gala Maria Follaco (Jul. 1925)

21. On Popular Literature, Gala Maria Follaco (Mar. 1929 - Feb. 1930)

22. The Modern Novel as Commodity, Nathan Shockey (May 1929)

23. Modern Japanese Detective Stories: On Edogawa Rampo in Particular, Seth Jacobowitz (Apr. 1925)

24. A Personal View on Agrarian Literature, Seth Jacobowitz (May 1929)

IV. Film and Media Theory

25. Film as a Mechanism of Americanisation, Aaron William Moore (Feb. 1929)

26. On Reality in the Arts, Giuseppe Strippoli (Aug. 1930)

27. The Technological Revolution in Literature and the Arts, Seth Jacobowitz (Jan. 1928)

28. Literature Fifty Years in the Future, Aaron William Moore (Mar. 1928)

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-350-37817-8

1-350-37818-6

1-350-37816-X

OCLC:

1525622291