Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku

(Book #58 in the Brill's Japanese Studies Library Series)

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The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku's fiction, David J. Gundry's lucid, compelling study examines the tension reflected in key works by Edo-period Japan's leading writer of 'floating world' literature between the official societal hierarchy dictated by the Tokugawa shogunate's hereditary status-group system and the era's de facto, fluid, wealth-based social hierarchy. The book's nuanced, theoretically engaged explorations of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9004343059

ISBN13:9789004343054

Release Date:August 2017

Publisher:Brill

Length:314 Pages

Weight:1.28 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku

(Book #58 in the Brill's Japanese Studies Library Series)

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