The typographic imagination : reading and writing in Japan's age of modern print media /
"A study of how Japan's modern commercial print revolution transformed ideas and practices of prose, language, philosophy, and politics. The book explores the habituation of new forms of reading and writing from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twen...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The world made type
- Part I: The making of a modern media ecology
- Pictures and voices from a paper empire
- Iwanami Shoten and the enterprise of eternity
- The topography of typography: bibliophiles and used books in the print city
- Part II: Prose, language, and politics in Japan's type era
- Sensational age: Yokomitsu Riichi and the contours of literary discourse
- Brave new words: orthographic reform, romanization, and esperantism
- The medium is the masses: print capitalism and the prewar leftist movement
- Conclusion: ends, echoes, and inversions.