A comprehensive study on the developmental process of literature as the cultural industry in the 1950s and 60s

本研究将作家和文学作品重新定位为“文化资源”，考察了20世纪五六十年代文学市场存在的问题，揭示了文学市场的现实状况。它不仅考察了文坛的批评话语是如何形成的，造成了什么现象，而且通过对作家生活方式的观察，揭示了战后日本社会文化的一些方面的变化。鉴于在经济快速增长的时代，普通大众作为商业产品消费了大量的文学，因此可以假设，包括所有体裁在内的整个文学都成为了大众消费的产品。这项研究分析和思考了文学在经济增长中发挥的作用，规模之大前所未有。

This study reconsidered<writers> and <literary works> as 'cultural resources', investigated the problems in the literature market in the 1950s and 60s, and revealed its actual situation. It not only considered how critical discourses in the literary world have been formed and what phenomena they have caused, but also revealed some aspects of changes in post-war Japanese society and culture through observing writers' way of life. Given that 'general public' consumed a lot of literature as commercial products in the age of rapid economic growth, it is assumed that the whole literature including all genres became the product for mass consumption. This study analyzed and considered the role which literature played in the economic growth on an unprecedented scale.