Writing Violence : The Politics of form in Early Modern Japanese Literature 9780231558969, 9780231211543, 9780231211550

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the s

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Writing Violence : The Politics of form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
9780231558969, 9780231211543, 9780231211550

David C. Atherton offers a new approach to understanding the relationship between the challenging formal features of ear

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