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The Textual Townsman : Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gaubatz, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- In this innovative and interdisciplinary book, Thomas Gaubatz offers a fresh approach to understanding the literature of the Tokugawa townspeople.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION. Writing Urban Identity
- PART I Reimagining Urban Community
- Chapter One THE COMMUNITY OF THE MARKETPLACE
- Chapter Two THE POETICS AND POLITICS OF TOWNSMAN PROPERTY
- Chapter Three FROM TOWNSMAN CULTURE TO TOWNSMAN NARRATIVE
- PART II Copying Characters
- Chapter Four THE MISFORTUNE OF BEING SAVED BY ONES ARTS
- Chapter Five REPRESENTING NORMALITY
- EPILOGUE. From the Textual Townsman to Edo Urbanism
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-56366-3
- 9780231563666
- OCLC:
- 1547900448
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