Title The power of the brush : epistolary practices in Chosŏn Korea / Hwisang Cho

Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies Contents Prologue: A Story of Letter Writing in Twenty-First-Century Korea -- Letter Writing in Korean Written Culture -- The Rise and Fall of a Spatial Genre -- Letters in Korean Neo-Confucian Tradition -- Epistolary Practices and Textual Culture in the Academy Movement -- Social Epistolary Genres and Political News -- Contentious Performances in Political Epistolary Practices -- Epilogue: Legacies of the Chosŏn Epistolary Practices Summary "Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an "epistolary revolution" in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women using vernacular Korean script, who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. The physical peculiarities of new letter forms such as spiral letters, the cooptation of letters for purposes other than communication, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres combined to form a revolution in letter writing that challenged traditional values and institutions. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies"-- Provided by publisher Analysis History of Asia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Korean letters -- History and criticism Letter writing, Korean -- History Calligraphy, Korean -- History -- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910. HISTORY -- Asia -- Korea. Calligraphy, Korean -- Choson dynasty Korean letters Letter writing, Korean Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020006832 ISBN 9780295747828 029574782X

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