Introduction: publishing and the creation of an alternate economy of value -- Modernity as rupture : the concentration of print capital -- The stability of the center : Tokyo publishing and the great Kantō earthquake -- The static canon : Kaizōsha's Complete works of contemporary Japanese literature -- Defining and defending literary value : debates, 1919/1935 -- The dynamic canon : the Akutagawa and Naoki prizes for literature
Summary
A history of Japanese publishing in the interwar period, addressing the material production of literary texts and the creation of literary value
