{"product_id":"text-and-the-city-essays-on-japanese-modernity-paperback","title":"Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAi Maeda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJames A. Fujii\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. \u003ci\u003eText and the City\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical thought, Maeda was a brilliant, insightful theorist of modernity for whom the city was the embodiment of modern life. He conducted a far-reaching inquiry into changing conceptions of space, temporality, and visual practices as they gave shape to the city and its inhabitants. James A. Fujii has assembled a selection of Maeda's essays that question and explore the contours of Japanese modernity and resonate with the concerns of literary and cultural studies today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaeda remapped the study of modern Japanese literature and culture in the 1970s and 1980s, helping to generate widespread interest in studying mass culture on the one hand and marginalized sectors of modern Japanese society on the other. These essays reveal the broad range of Maeda's cultural criticism. Among the topics considered are Tokyo; utopias; prisons; visual media technologies including panoramas and film; the popular culture of the Edo, Meiji, and contemporary periods; maps; women's magazines; and women writers. Integrally related to these discussions are Maeda's readings of works of Japanese literature including Matsubara Iwagoro's \u003ci\u003eIn Darkest Tokyo, \u003c\/i\u003e Nagai Kafu's \u003ci\u003eThe Fox, \u003c\/i\u003e Higuchi Ichiyo's \u003ci\u003eGrowing Up, \u003c\/i\u003e Kawabata Yasunari's \u003ci\u003eThe Crimson Gang of Asakusa, \u003c\/i\u003e and Narushima Ryuhoku's short story \"Useless Man.\" Illuminating the infinitely rich phenomena of modernity, these essays are full of innovative, unexpected connections between cultural productions and urban life, between the text and the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite lamentably premature death of Maeda Ai in 1987, his works have left an incontrovertible mark on the study of early modern and modern Japanese literature. Adopting liberally from phenomenological hermeneutics, cultural anthropology, structural semiotics and marxist literary studies, Maeda invented new ways of inquiring into the historicity of 'literature' and articulated the scope of literary studies to other domains in the human and social sciences, thereby leading a number of young scholars of Japan in the United States in the direction of what would be generally recognized as 'cultural studies.' In the fields of trans-Pacific Japanese studies, it is no exaggeration to say that Maeda accomplished something comparable to what Raymond Williams did in the English-speaking world.--Naoki Sakai, Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaeda Ai (1931-1987) was a renowned Japanese literary and cultural critic. He taught at Rikkyo University. His many books include the three-volume \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Tokyo 1868-1930\u003c\/i\u003e (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe World of Higuchi Ichiyo\u003c\/i\u003e (1978)\u003ci\u003e, Meiji as Phantasm\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Creation of the Modern Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (1973).\u003cbr\u003eJames A. Fujii is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eComplicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames A. Fujii is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eComplicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 9.44 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 25, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704299057459,"sku":"9780822333463","price":71.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/tDz8TWN3jX9780822333463.webp?v=1763351802","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/text-and-the-city-essays-on-japanese-modernity-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}