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Origins of modern Japanese literature / - xx, 219 pages ; - Post-contemporary interventions .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-208) and index.

oreword: In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities Fredric Jameson Jameson, Fredric
Introduction 1
1 Discovery of Landscape 11
2 Discovery of Interiority 45
3 Confession as a System 76
4 Sickness as Meaning 97
5 Discovery of the Child 114
6 On the Power to Construct 136
Materials Added to the English Edition
7 Extinction of Genres (1991) 175
Karatani Kojin's Afterword to the Japanese Paperback Edition of Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1988) 185
Karatani Kojin's Afterword to the English Edition (1991) 190
Notes 197
Glossary 209
Index 217
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Japanese literature--History and criticism.


Japan

PL726.6 / ORI 1993