Karatani Kōjin, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature, trans. ed. Brett de Bary (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993).A translation of essays published by Karatani in '78, '79, '80. Had an appallingly dense introduction by Frederic Jameson that I will have to go back and read to make any sense of. Not really so much a history of the origins as a ( Read more... )