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Author:   Professor Seth Jacobowitz (Texas State University, USA) ,  Professor Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9781350378155

ISBN 10:   1350378151
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Editors’ Introduction: Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke and Modern Japan’s Mass Culture Part One - Short Fiction 1. ‘The Artificial Human’ Seth Jacobowitz (Texas State University, USA) 2. ‘The Discipline of Steel’ James Dorsey (Dartmouth College, USA) 3. ‘Demon at the Pulpit’ Rebecca Suter (University of Sydney, Australia) 4. ‘Woman of Mystery’ Gabriel Fernandes (Independent Scholar, USA) 5. ‘An Adventure on a Summer Night’ James Dorsey (Dartmouth College, USA) 6. ‘The Apartment Murderer’ Gabriel Fernandes (Independent Scholar, USA) 7. ‘A Night at the Zoo’ Seth Jacobowitz (Texas State University, USA) 8. ‘Two Blind Men’ James Dorsey (Dartmouth College, USA) 9. ‘This Is How I Died!’ Seth Jacobowitz (Texas State University, USA) Part Two - Critical Essays 10. The Technological Revolution in Literature and the Arts Seth Jacobowitz (Texas State University, USA) 11. Film as a Mechanism of Americanization William Huber (Abertay University, UK) 12. On Popular Literature Gala Maria Follaco (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Italy) 13. On the Current State of Japan’s Literary Elite Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) 14. The Genius of Popular Literature Gala Maria Follaco (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Italy) 15. The True Nature of Literature, Parts 1 and 2 James Dorsey (Dartmouth College, USA) 16. Political Value and Artistic Value James Dorsey (Dartmouth College, USA) 17. On Professionalization in the Arts Gala Maria Follaco (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Italy) 18. The Professionalization of Fiction Writing and the Problem of Poor Manuscripts Gala Maria Follaco (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’, Italy) 19. On Reality in the Arts Giuseppe Strippoli [PhD student] (University of Edinburgh, UK) 20. On the Power of Expression in the Novel Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) 21. The Modern Novel as Commodity Nathan Shockey (Bard College, USA) 22. The Embodiment of the Modern Era Yingzi Feng [PhD student] (University of Edinburgh, UK) 23. What Is Developmental Thought? Federico Marcon (Princeton University, USA) 24. Psychological Descriptions in the Novel Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) 25. Introduction to the Theory of Social Science Methodology Federico Marcon (Princeton University, USA) 26. Problems in Cultural Science Christopher Perkins (University of Edinburgh, UK) 27. Self-Reflection Christopher Perkins (University of Edinburgh, UK) 28. Social Criticism Yingzi Feng [PhD student] (University of Edinburgh, UK) 29. The Objective of the Women’s Movement Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) 30. The Social Task of the Youth Corps Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) 31. Agrarian Literature: A Personal View Seth Jacobowitz (Texas State University, USA) 32. The Social Basis of Modernism Yingzi Feng [PhD student] (University of Edinburgh, UK) 33. Literature Fifty Years in the Future Aaron William Moore (University of Edinburgh, UK) Afterword Sugamoto Yasuyuki (Fuji Women’s University, Japan) Index

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A major thinker of the twentieth century, Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke engages with media, class, politics, and gender forcing us to rethink our presentist notions about film, detective fiction, capitalism, and reproductive labor. This exemplary selection of his works (fiction and non-fiction) from the peak of his career captures his creative artistic brilliance and remarkably prescient thought processes. * Jonathan E. Abel, associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA * This volume examines the polyglot and politically charged world of one of Japan’s most intriguing modernist intellectuals of prewar era. Hirabayashi’s production stretched from popular to politics, and film, engaging with the burgeoning discourse on technology and society. He observed Japan at a crucial time, positing if ‘conquering the world of fantasy would allow it to become a reality. * Barak Kushner, Professor of East Asian History, University of Cambridge, UK * The brilliant editors Seth Jacobowitz’s and Aaron William Moore’s timing is uncanny. Together with a cast of other talented translators they have not only secured Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke’s works’ survival (Überleben) and continuing life (Fortleben), as Walter Benjamin would have it, but have indeed given a second life to one of interwar Japan’s most visionary, critical voices. * Sabine Frühstück, Distinguished Professor and Koichi Takashima Chair, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA * Consciously departing from Orthodox Marxism, Hirabayashi innovatively contributed to early twentieth-century understandings of mass culture via the lens of science and technology. Through his own stories and writings on new art forms ranging from detective stories to radio and film, he reflected and refracted modern Japanese popular intellectual life. Jacobowitz and Moore’s reader offers us an intriguing contribution to the global intellectual history of modernities. * Sho Konishi, Director Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, UK *

Author Information

Seth Jacobowitz is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (2016), which won the International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities in 2017. He is the translator from Japanese of The Edogawa Rampo Reader (2008) and from Portuguese of Fernando Morais’ Dirty Hearts: The History of Shindo Renmei (2021). Aaron William Moore is Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author of many articles on Chinese and Japanese wartime childhood and youth, as well as two books: Writing War (2013), which analysed over 200 combat soldiers' diaries from China, Japan, and the United States, and Bombing the City (2018), which compared the air raid experiences of civilians in British and Japanese regional cities.

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