Textures of mourning : calligraphy, mortality, and The Tale of Genji scrolls / Reginald Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Reginald R., 1979- author.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 84.

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; number 84

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genji monogatari emaki.

Murasaki Shikibu, 978?- Genji monogatari--Illustrations.

Murasaki Shikibu.

Genji monogatari (Murasaki Shikibu).

Scrolls, Japanese--Heian period, 794-1185.

Scrolls, Japanese.

Scrolls, Japanese--Heian period.

Mortality in art.

Calligraphy, Japanese--Psychological aspects.

Calligraphy, Japanese.

Japanese literature--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Psychological aspects.

Japan--Civilization.

Japan.

Civilization.

Japanese literature--Heian period.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Illustrated works.

Pictures.

Physical Description:

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Calligraphy, mortality, and The Tale of Genji scrolls

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]

Contents:

Rethinking mortality : notes toward an apprehensive method

Dying to move : calligraphic performance, gestural texture, and textual ethics

Sickness, illegibility, and the spectacle of lethal exposure

Melancholic pedagogies and the exquisite female corpse

Tangled-script's legacies of attachment

Technological decryption, recessionary rebirth, and the intensification of two-dimensional life

Discontinuous textures and melancholic repressions of mortality.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472130962

047213096X

OCLC:

1032288938

Publisher Number:

40028514454