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Review title: Not For Me
Product review: For me, Washburn does nothing special here. He seems to come up with a shaky (if familiar) definition of "modern" and presents a series of close-readings solely to fit them within that definition. For the seasoned student of Japanese literary studies, his readings may prove interesting but don't really take the texts themselves or the idea of the "modern" in a new direction.While there is no denying that Washburn is a topnotch intellectual in the field and an outstanding writer, for me this monograph reads like a gotta-make-tenure study that attempts to be groundbreaking while also very liberally discredits--I would say often unfairly--some of the leading Japanologists and literary scholars/critics seemingly for the sake of vanity. That being said, I may be simply missing the point. It is very savvy and I can only aspire to such erudition.
