A sense of the city : : modes of urban representation in the works of Nagai Kafu (1879-1959) / / by Gala Maria Follaco.

In A Sense of the City , Gala Maria Follaco examines Nagai Kafū’s (1879-1959) literary construction of urban spatialities from late Meiji through the early Shōwa period. She argues that Kafū’s urban critique was based on his awareness of the cultural sedimentation of the cityscape and of the complex...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
Anno di pubblicazione:2017
Lingua:English
Serie:East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture 9.
Descrizione fisica:1 online resource (xi, 251 pages).
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Sommario:
  • Front Matter
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Abroad
  • Shanghai
  • Tacoma, Seattle, Kalamazoo
  • New York
  • Lyon, Paris
  • Tokyo
  • Dealing with the Other
  • Rhetoric of Places
  • Deletion, Ingenuousness, Memory
  • An Intimate Cartography
  • Conclusion.