Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. Drawing upon methodological insights by Friedrich Kittler and extensive archival research, Seth Jacobowitz investigates a range of epistemic transformations in the Meiji era (1868â€“1912), from the rise of communication networks such as telegraph and post to debates over national language and script reform. He documents the changing discursive practices and conceptual constellations that reshaped the verbal, visual, and literary regimes from the Tokugawa era. These changes culminate in the discovery of a new vernacular literary style from the shorthand transcriptions of theatrical storytelling (rakugo) that was subsequently championed by major writers such as Masaoka Shiki and Natsume SÅseki as the basis for a new mode of transparently objective, â€œtranscriptiveâ€ realism. The birth of modern Japanese literature is thus located not only in shorthand alone, but within the emergent, multimedia channels that were arriving from the West. This book represents the first systematic study of the ways in which 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.
Country USA
Brand Harvard University Press
Manufacturer Harvard University Asia Center
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780674088412
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Harvard University Press
Manufacturer	Harvard University Asia Center
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780674088412
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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