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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David C. Atherton
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231211550
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21155-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Japan, Education, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, literary criticism; history; Asia; Japan