Writing Violence

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

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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.

Contenu
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