When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism

by Gregory Golley

As industrial and scientific developments in early-twentieth-century Japan transformed the meaning of "objective observation," modern writers and poets struggled to capture what they had come to see as an evolving network of invisible relations joining people to the larger material universe. For these artists, literary modernism was a crisis of perception before it was a crisis of representation. When Our Eyes No Longer See portrays an extraordinary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674027949
• ISBN13: 9780674027947
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"