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Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kiby?shi of Edo Japan

Door Adam L. Kern

Categorie	Grafiek & Tekeningen
Boeknummer	#409037-LB11
Titel	Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kiby?shi of Edo Japan
Auteur	Kern, Adam L.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0674022661
ISBN13	9780674022669
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations some in colour, 4to.
Samenvatting	Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in English of the kibyôshi, a genre of sophisticated pictorial fiction widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by major author-artist Santô Kyôden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the mid-Edo period. The kibyôshi, Kern argues, became an influential form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something more, perhaps even a national culture, until the sh... (Lees verder)ogunal government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It serves as an introduction not only to the kibyôshi but also to the genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese comicbook (manga) and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the general reader as well as to the more experienced student of Japanese cultural history.
Pagina's	510
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 50,00

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