David C. Atherton

Writing Violence

The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

David C. Atherton offers a new approach to understanding the relationship between the challenging formal features of early modern Japanese popular literature and the world beyond its pages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231211543
• ISBN-10: 0231211546
• Artikelnr.: 67792779

Autorenporträt

David C. Atherton

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note to Readers
Introduction: The Problem, Promise, and Politics of Early Modern Literary
Form
1. Creative Destruction: Remaking the World in Seventeenth-Century Disaster
Literature
2. The Vengeance Variations: Revenge as Form in the Fiction of Ihara
Saikaku
3. The (Un)crucified Lovers: Adultery, Punishment, and the "Truth" of
Transgression
4. Ueda Akinari and the Form of Fiction: In Which a Brother is Celebrated
for Beheading His Sister
5. Frontier Violence: Late Yomihon Form and the Bodies and Bounds of the
Realm
Epilogue: Forms in Context, Forms Beyond Context
Notes
Bibliography
Index