Foreword: In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities / Fredric Jameson
vii
Introduction 1
1. The Discovery of Landscape (translated by Brett de Bary) 11
2. The Discovery of Interiority (translated by Brett de Bary)
45
3. Confession as a System (translated by Brett de Bary) 76
4. Sickness as Meaning (translated by Yukari Kawahara and Robert
Steen) 97
5. The Discovery of the Child (translated by Ayako Kano and Eiko
Elliott) 114
6. On the Power to Construction (translated by Ayako Kano and
Joseph Murphy) 136
Materials Added to the English Edition (translated by Brett de
Bary)
7. The Extinction of Genres (1991) 175
Karatani Kōjin's Afterword to the Japanese Paperback Edition of
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1988) 185
Karatani Kōjin's Afterword to the English Edition (1991) 190
Notes 197
Glossary 209
Index 217
Kōjin Karatani is Professor of Humanities at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. Brett de Bary is Professor of Japanese Literature at Cornell University.
"Karatani Kojin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon Kindai bungaku no kigen) has had a profound effect on the way we formulate the questions we ask about modern literature and culture, and that effect will no doubt be redoubled now that the work is available in a lucid (and carefully annotated) English translation... Karatani's argument is compelling, moving even, and in the end the reader comes away with a different understanding not only of modern Japanese literature but of modern Japan itself..." --Stephen Snyder, The Journal of Asian Studies
"Karatani Kojin's Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon Kindai bungaku no kigen) has had a profound effect on the way we formulate the questions we ask about modern literature and culture, and that effect will no doubt be redoubled now that the work is available in a lucid (and carefully annotated) English translation... Karatani's argument is compelling, moving even, and in the end the reader comes away with a different understanding not only of modern Japanese literature but of modern Japan itself..." --Stephen Snyder, The Journal of Asian Studies
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