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1 online resource (xi, 314 pages). |
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text file |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Book industries and trade. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Printing -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Printing. |
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Printing -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Books and reading -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Books and reading. |
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Books and reading -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Japan -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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Japan -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shockey, Nathan. Typographic imagination. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231194280 (DLC) 2019018559 (OCoLC)1105736324 |
| ISBN |
023155074X |
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9780231550741 (electronic book) |
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9780231194280 (cloth) |
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