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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Moretti, Laura (19..-.... ; Spécialiste d'études japonaises)
Titre(s) : Pleasure in profit [Texte imprimé] : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan / Laura Moretti
Publication : New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xvi-416 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Littérature populaire japonaise -- 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo)
Prose japonaise -- 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231197229. - ISBN 0231197225. - ISBN 9780231197236. - ISBN 0231197233. -
ISBN 9780231552059 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467244109
Notice n° :
FRBNF46724410
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