Sari Kawana (1973-2020) was Professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She was the author of Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture (2008).

The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan is a worthy contribution to scholarship on the book as media. It draws on media theory and the work of many scholars writing in English and Japanese and extends their work into new arenas … [An] engaging work that will impact continued research on the book and literature as media … This is an intriguing study with significant implications for future scholarship.

• Introduction: Japanese Literature and the Survival of the Useful1. Mass-Produced Must-Haves: The Enpon Boom, Cultural Inflation, and Advertising Battles2. Reading Beyond the Lines: Young Readers and Wartime Reading Practices3. Murder He Wrote: Textbooks, Visual Adaptations, and Critique Policière in Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro4. Authorship and Loose Canons: Media Mix, Visual Adaptation, and Literary Success5. Literary Ambulation: Tourism, Author Worship, and Hunting for the PastConclusion: Copyright, the Commons, and Guardians Against GridlockNotesBibliographyIndex

Sari Kawana (1973-2020) was Professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She was the author of Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture (2008).

The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan is a worthy contribution to scholarship on the book as media. It draws on media theory and the work of many scholars writing in English and Japanese and extends their work into new arenas … [An] engaging work that will impact continued research on the book and literature as media … This is an intriguing study with significant implications for future scholarship.

• Introduction: Japanese Literature and the Survival of the Useful1. Mass-Produced Must-Haves: The Enpon Boom, Cultural Inflation, and Advertising Battles2. Reading Beyond the Lines: Young Readers and Wartime Reading Practices3. Murder He Wrote: Textbooks, Visual Adaptations, and Critique Policière in Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro4. Authorship and Loose Canons: Media Mix, Visual Adaptation, and Literary Success5. Literary Ambulation: Tourism, Author Worship, and Hunting for the PastConclusion: Copyright, the Commons, and Guardians Against GridlockNotesBibliographyIndex

Sari Kawana (1973-2020) was Professor of Japanese at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. She was the author of Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture (2008).

The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan is a worthy contribution to scholarship on the book as media. It draws on media theory and the work of many scholars writing in English and Japanese and extends their work into new arenas … [An] engaging work that will impact continued research on the book and literature as media … This is an intriguing study with significant implications for future scholarship.

• Introduction: Japanese Literature and the Survival of the Useful1. Mass-Produced Must-Haves: The Enpon Boom, Cultural Inflation, and Advertising Battles2. Reading Beyond the Lines: Young Readers and Wartime Reading Practices3. Murder He Wrote: Textbooks, Visual Adaptations, and Critique Policière in Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro4. Authorship and Loose Canons: Media Mix, Visual Adaptation, and Literary Success5. Literary Ambulation: Tourism, Author Worship, and Hunting for the PastConclusion: Copyright, the Commons, and Guardians Against GridlockNotesBibliographyIndex