Writing Technology in Meiji Japan
Author | : Seth Jacobowitz |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-03-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674244494 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674244498 |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Download or read book Writing Technology in Meiji Japan written by Seth Jacobowitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seth Jacobowitz rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture, presenting the first systematic study of the ways that media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature.