1st Edition
Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture The Supremacy of the Present
By Filippo Cervelli
Copyright 2025
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction.
Examining immediacy in literary works by a diverse body of authors and works in popular culture released during the major social and economic changes of 1995 and the triple disaster of March 2011, the book underlines the importance of the perception of instability crucial for immediacy.... Read more
Introduction. The supremacy and the tyranny of the immediate 1. Immediacy in contemporary culture 2. Immediacy in literature: Takahashi Gen’ichirō 3. Immediacy in literature II: Takahashi, Taguchi, Hirano 4. Immediacy in popular culture Epilogue. Ties beyond immediacy
Biography
Filippo Cervelli is Lecturer in Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture at SOAS University of London.
