Description: Further DetailsTitle: Afterlives of LettersCondition: NewSubtitle: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and KoreaISBN-10: 023121152XEAN: 9780231211529ISBN: 9780231211529Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 10/24/2023Description: Honorable Mention, 2024 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, Modern Language AssociationWhen East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature because of the centuries-long cultural exchanges in the region. As modernization profoundly destabilized cultural norms, they ventured to create new literature for the new era.Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms. He argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the present’s historical relationship to the past across the cultural transformations caused by modernization. Hashimoto examines writers’ anachronistic engagement with past cultures deemed obsolete or antithetical to new systems of values, showing that this transnational process was integral to the emergence of modern literature.A groundbreaking cross-cultural excavation of the origins of modern literature in East Asia featuring remarkable linguistic scope, Afterlives of Letters bridges Asian studies and comparative literature and delivers a remapping of world literature.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Satoru HashimotoGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Afterlives of Letters
Title: Afterlives of Letters
Subtitle: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, a
ISBN-10: 023121152X
EAN: 9780231211529
ISBN: 9780231211529
Release Date: 10/24/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Afterlives of Letters : the Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2023
Subject: Comparative Literature, Asian / General, Modern / General, Linguistics / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 23.9 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Satoru Hashimoto
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
