Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature
Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
Reihe: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
ISBN: 978-0-472-03804-6
Verlag: University of Michigan Press
Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shoyo, Higuchi Ichiyo, and Izumi Kyoka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.