The Typographic Imagination : : Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media / / Nathan Shockey.
In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed through t...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION AND TRANSLATION
- Introduction: The World Made Type
- PART I. The Making of a Modern Media Ecology
- Chapter One. Pictures and Voices from a Paper Empire
- Chapter Two. Iwanami Shoten and the Enterprise of Eternity
- Chapter Three. The Topography of Typography: Bibliophiles and Used Books in the Print City
- PART II. Prose, Language, and Politics in the Type Era
- Chapter Four. New Age Sensations: Yokomitsu Riichi and the Contours of Literary Discourse
- Chapter Five. Brave New Words: Orthographic Reform, Romanization, and Esperantism
- Chapter Six. The Medium Is the Masses: Print Capitalism and the Prewar Leftist Movement
- Conclusion: Ends, Echoes, and Inversions
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX