Moretti Pleasure in Profit

Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55205-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten

In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moretti, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Note to Readers
Introduction: Reclaiming the Great Unread
1. The Culture of the Written Word
2. The Publishing Business
3. Negotiating the Way
4. Civility Matters
5. Say It in a Skillful Letter
6. A Commitment to the Present
7. The Triumph of Plurality
Epilogue: Wayfinding
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Moretti is senior lecturer in premodern Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College. She is the author of Recasting the Past: An Early Modern “Tales of Ise” for Children (2016).