Foreword: In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: In the Mirror of Alternate Modernities vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Discovery of Landscape 11
6. 2 The Discovery of Interiority 45
7. 3 Confession as a System 76
8. 4 Sickness as Meaning 97
9. 5 The Discovery of the Child 114
10. 6 On the Power to Construct 136
11. Materials Added to the English Edition
12. 7 The Extinction of Genres (1991) 175
13. Karatani Kojin's Afterword to the Japanese Paperback Edition of Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (1988) 185
14. Karatani Kojin's Afterword to the English Edition (1991) 190
15. Notes 197
16. Glossary 209
17. Index 217