TY - BOOK AU - Hashimoto,Satoru TI - Afterlives of letters: the transnational origins of modern literature in China, Japan, and Korea T2 - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SN - 0231558953 AV - PL493 .H37 2023 U1 - 895.09 23/eng/20230425 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - East Asian literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Litt�erature extr�eme-orientale KW - 19e si�ecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - 20e si�ecle KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Literary criticism KW - lcgft KW - Critiques litt�eraires KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Part I: A Multilayered Contact Space in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia -- 1. Literature's Search for Itself: Liang Qichao and Meiji Political Fiction -- 2. Literature and Life in Exile: Sin Ch'aeho's Engagement with Liang Qichao's Work -- Part II: Reforming Language and Redefining "Literature" -- 3. Parody and Repetition: Rereading the Works of Lu Xun, Mori �Ogai, and Yi Kwangsu -- 4. History as Rewriting: The Historical Fiction of Lu Xun, Mori �Ogai, and Yi Kwangsu; Part III: Japan's Imperial Mimicry and Its Critique -- 5. Archaeology of Resistance: Zhou Zuoren's Cultural Criticism in Wartime East Asia -- 6. Transnational Allegory: Intertextualizing Lu Xun in Late Colonial Korean, Taiwanese, and Manchukuo Literatures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - "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"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3590753 ER -