Writing Technology in Meiji Japan

Seth Jacobowitz rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture, presenting the first systematic study of the ways that media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late nineteenth to early twentieth century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature.

Seth Jacobowitz regandeste originile limbii japoneze moderne, literaturii si culturii vizuale, prezentand primul studiu sistematic al modurilor in care mass-media si tehnologiile inscriptive disponibile in Japonia la pragul sau de modernizare de la sfarsitul secolului al nouasprezecelea pana la inceputul secolului al XX-lea au modelat si au fost create. literatura japoneza moderna.