Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature

by David C. Atherton

Book Overview

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. 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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231211554
• ISBN13: 9780231211550
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"