Atherton Writing Violence

The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55896-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atherton, David C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

David C. Atherton is assistant professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University.