{"product_id":"the-uses-of-memory-timothy-j-van-compernolle-9780674022720","title":"The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyo","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pioneering writer Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896) has been described as \"the last woman of old Japan,\" a consummate stylist of classical prose, whose command of the linguistic and rhetorical riches of the premodern tradition might suggest that her writings are relics of the past with no concern for the problems of modern life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTimothy Van Compernolle investigates the social dimensions of Ichiyō's artistic imagination and argues that she creatively reworked the Japanese literary tradition in order to understand, confront, and critique the emerging modernity of the Meiji period. For Ichiyō, the classical canon was a reservoir of tropes and paradigms that could be reshaped and renewed as a way to explore the sociopolitical transformations of the 1890s and cast light upon the human costs of modernization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of Ichiyō's best known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are dialogically engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of Ichiyō's narratives. In its close, sensitive readings of Ichiyō's oeuvre, \u003ci\u003eThe Uses of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e not only complicates the scholarly discussion of her position in the Japanese literary canon, but also broaches larger theoretical issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy J. Van Compernolle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674022726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674022720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Timothy J. Van Compernolle","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086755606783,"sku":"9780674022720","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_019c6c72-00bb-4164-b005-88c6a8a71af0.jpg?v=1769096391","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-uses-of-memory-timothy-j-van-compernolle-9780674022720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}