The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan's Age of Modern Print Media

by Nathan Shockey

Book Overview

In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, and a new generation of writers and thinkers considered how their world could be reconstructed through the circulation of printed language as a mass-market commodity. The Typographic Imagination explores how this commercial print revolution transformed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231194293
• ISBN13: 9780231194297
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"