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meeners's review
3.0
pretty entertaining reading, and useful when thinking about issues of canon formation (esp. concerning "edo" literature - the legacy of which still lives on today) and the artificial divide between 通俗小説 and 純粋小説. one can start to see why kikuchi kan was so popular back in the day and yet so easily forgotten (or made to be forgotten) later.
note on the edition: i have a passionate book lust for the ちくま日本文学全集 series, the volumes of which are all highly readable and accessible and carefully edited/footnoted and affordable and beautifully, beautifully bound. i cannot even describe the satisfaction that comes simply from holding one in my hands. but it should be noted that these books are not really suited for academic use (too much cleaning up for contemporary readers).
note on the edition: i have a passionate book lust for the ちくま日本文学全集 series, the volumes of which are all highly readable and accessible and carefully edited/footnoted and affordable and beautifully, beautifully bound. i cannot even describe the satisfaction that comes simply from holding one in my hands. but it should be noted that these books are not really suited for academic use (too much cleaning up for contemporary readers).
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