"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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1. Verfasser:	Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies) (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Schlagworte:	1600-1868 Japanese prose literature > Edo period, 1600-1868 > History and criticism. Popular literature > Japan > History and criticism. Prose japonaise > 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo) > Histoire et critique. Paralittérature > Japon > Histoire et critique. LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese Japanese prose literature > Edo period Popular literature Japan Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
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"--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780231552059 023155205X