"A study of how literature in its modern, aesthetic sense emerged in late-nineteenth- to early twentieth-century China, Japan, and Korea in a transregional cultural context. This book argues that modern literature came into being in East Asia through writerly attempts at reconstructing the pres...

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Main Author:	Hashimoto, Satoru, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Series:	Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:	1800-1999 East Asian literature > 19th century > History and criticism. East Asian literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Littérature extrême-orientale > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique. Littérature extrême-orientale > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. East Asian literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:	DE-862 DE-863
Summary:	"A study of how literature in its modern, aesthetic sense emerged in late-nineteenth- to early twentieth-century China, Japan, and Korea in a transregional cultural context. This book 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 profound cultural transformations caused by modernization. Hashimoto's argument renews our understanding of modern literature--one of the most culturally iconic and sociopolitically consequential institutions--in the region by locating its origins in writers' anachronistic engagement with past cultures, rather than in their progressive departure therefrom as most existing studies do. Afterlives of Letters is the first monograph to be written in any language that offers a cross-cultural examination of the inceptions of modern literature in East Asia by straddling the threshold between the modern and the premodern, and engaging Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language primary materials in both classical and vernacular forms. It makes a significant original contribution to the emerging body of scholarship at the intersection of area studies and comparative literature and makes a novel intervention in contemporary discourse on world literature"--
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xi, 412 pages).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0231558953 9780231558952