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| العنوان: |
Science across the Meiji divide: Vernacular literary genres as vectors of science in modern Japan. |
| المؤلفون: |
Meade, Ruselle |
| المصدر: |
History of Science; Jun2024, Vol. 62 Issue 2, p227-251, 25p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
LITERARY form, JAPANESE literature, JAPANESE history, NINETEENTH century, PUBLIC interest, HISTORIANS, PRINT culture |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
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| مستخلص: |
Histories of Japanese science have been integral in affirming the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as the starting point of modern Japan. Vernacular genres, characterized as "premodern," have therefore largely been overlooked by historians of science, regardless of when they were published. Paradoxically, this has resulted in the marginalization of the very works through which most people encountered science. This article addresses this oversight and its historiographical ramifications by focusing on kyūri books – popular works of science – published in the years following the Restoration, when there was unprecedented public interest in science. It asks, what if we take these kyūri books on their own terms as science books, just as those of the time saw them? This article explores three genres of kyūri books, namely fictionalized formats, such as the epic tale (monogatari); epistolary guides; and genres, such as the sutra, that drew on religious textual practices. It argues that these literary genres provided interpretive frameworks that shaped readers' encounters with "modern" science. This exploration underscores the importance of engaging with vernacular genres to understand the emergence of science as a global category in the nineteenth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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