Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies....
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Author: Hideo Kamei
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Language: English
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Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature by Kamei, Hideo

Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

Dhs. 182.89

Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

Dhs. 182.89
Author: Hideo Kamei
Format: Paperback
Language: English
First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868-1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new--and sometimes revolutionary--forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kōjin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shōyō, Higuchi Ichiyō, and Izumi Kyōka, as well as writers previously ignored by most scholars. It also provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies. Available in English translation for the first time, it includes a new preface by the author and an introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and historical contexts in which the work first appeared.

Author: Hideo Kamei
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 01/19/2021
Pages: 374
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9780472038046

About the Author
Kamei Hideo is Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University, and Director, Otaru Municipal Museum of Literature. He is the author of numerous books and articles and one of the most respected scholars of modern Japanese literature today.
Michael Bourdaghs is Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on modern Japanese literature, popular culture, and critical theory.

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