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Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel /
"Reconsiders the rise of the novel in Japan in the Meiji Era by connecting the genre to new discourses on social mobility, ambition, and success. Situates the modern novel in a larger context of modernity, as a literary form engaged with a rapidly changing society"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
393. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Desire and deferral: Japanese naturalism in the countryside
- A utopia of self-help: imagining rural Japan in the novels of ambition
- Topographies of value: city, gift, and money in Natsume Soseki
- Winds of scandal: female self-fashioning in the metropolis
- A genealogy of failure: Korea, Manchuria, and the Japanese novel
- Conclusion: modern Japanese literature and the public sphere.