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Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity
Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity, Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. <i>Text and the City</i> is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European criti, Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity has a rating of 5 stars
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Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity, Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European criti, Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity
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  • Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity
  • Written by author Ai Maeda
  • Published by Duke University Press Books, May 2004
  • Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European criti
  • The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword : a walker in the city : Maeda Ai and the mapping of urban space
Introduction : refiguring the modern : Maeda Ai and the city1
1Utopia of the prisonhouse : a reading of In darkest Tokyo21
2The panorama of enlightenment65
3The spirits of abandoned gardens : on Nagai Kafu's "The fox"91
4Their time as children : a study of Higuchi Ichiyo's Growing up (Takekurabe)109
5Asakusa as theater : Kawabata Yasunari's The crimson gang of Asakusa145
6The development of popular fiction in the late Taisho Era : increasing readership of women's magazines163
7From communal performance to solitary reading : the rise of the modern Japanese reader223
8Modern literature and the world of printing255
9Ryuhoku in Paris275
10Berlin 1888 : Mori Ogai's "Dancing girl"295
11In the recesses of the high city : on Soseki's Gate329
Afterword351
Contributors375
Index377


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