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Author Shockey, Nathan, author.

Title The typographic imagination : reading and writing in Japan's age of modern print media / Nathan Shockey
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Contents Introduction: The world made type -- Part I: The making of a modern media ecology -- Pictures and voices from a paper empire -- Iwanami Shoten and the enterprise of eternity -- The topography of typography: bibliophiles and used books in the print city -- Part II: Prose, language, and politics in Japan's type era -- Sensational age: Yokomitsu Riichi and the contours of literary discourse -- Brave new words: orthographic reform, romanization, and esperantism -- The medium is the masses: print capitalism and the prewar leftist movement -- Conclusion: ends, echoes, and inversions
Summary "A study of how Japan's modern commercial print revolution transformed ideas and practices of prose, language, philosophy, and politics. The book explores the habituation of new forms of reading and writing from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, as the publishing industry made mass-produced books and magazines an inexorable part of everyday life. The book argues that this process precipitated a consciousness of the typographic text as a material medium and economic artifice with the power to critique and remake the modern world. Drawing from extensive archival research, with materials ranging from Meiji-era magazines to bookseller trade journals, strike bulletins, Esperanto primers, and declassified secret government censorship reports, The Typographic Imagination provides a layered, prismatic vision of Japanese literature, language, and culture in the age of modern mass media"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 09, 2022)
Subject Book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Printing -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Printing -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
Books and reading -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Books and reading -- Japan -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Japanese.
Book industries and trade
Books and reading
Intellectual life
Printing
SUBJECT Japan -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069535
Subject Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019981086
ISBN 9780231550741
023155074X