The New Real

Unlocking a vital understanding of how literary studies and media studies overlap and are bound together A synthetic history of new media reception in modern and contemporary Japan, The New Real positions mimesis at the heart of the media concept. Considering both mimicry and representation as the c...

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Autor principal: Abel, Jonathan E.
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Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: University of Minnesota Press 2024
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