The Significance of Media in Literary History : as a kind of Problematic(<The Special Issue>Media as a Perspective)

Abstract

For literature, the primary media is language, as well as style in the more specified sense of the word. The secondary media is publishing. Novel is a literary genre that emerged with the development of media. For this reason, its own development cannot be discussed without reference to media. In the Meiji period, with dynamic transformations in publishing, the problems concerning novel and media are especially discernible. This paper attempts to present a group of problems, in order to construct a highly probable hypothesis.