Pleasure in profit popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan
"The late seventeenth century was a time of peace in Japan, and consequently, schools and culture flourished even for non-elites. Although publishing for vernacular-only (i.e., not literary Sinitic) readers was big business, both Japanese and Western scholarship has largely ignored these books,...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Columbia University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The late seventeenth century was a time of peace in Japan, and consequently, schools and culture flourished even for non-elites. Although publishing for vernacular-only (i.e., not literary Sinitic) readers was big business, both Japanese and Western scholarship has largely ignored these books, concentrating instead on a narrative of the development of the novel in the seventeenth century, culminating in the writings of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). In Pleasure in Profit, Laura Moretti studies lowbrow seventeenth-century literature on its own terms, and in doing so, not only presents a much more accurate picture of prose at this time but also contributes to our understanding of Japanese non-elites--for instance, how key principles of Buddhism and Confucianism spread to the populace--and comparative popular culture, showing that this literature was no different from the French bibliothèque bleue, British chapbooks, or the Russian literature of lubok"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 369 - 396 |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 416 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780231197229 978-0-231-19722-9 9780231197236 978-0-231-19723-6 |