Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature Atherton David C.
Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature Atherton David C. Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. But how to understand the politics of this…
Specifikacia Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature Atherton David C.
Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature Atherton David C.
Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. But how to understand the politics of this body of literature remains contested, in part because the defining characteristics of much early modern fiction--formulaicness, reuse of narratives, stock characters, linguistic and intertextual play, and heavy allusion to literary canon--can seem to hold social and political realities at arm's length.David C. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the realms of history and the fantastic, and breathed new life into literary tradition.
Focusing on depictions of violence--one of the most fraught topics for a peaceful polity ruled over by warriors--he connects Atherton offers a new approach to understanding the relationship between the challenging formal features of early modern popular literature and the world beyond its pages.