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Title Graphic narratives from early modern Japan : the world of kusazōshi / edited by Laura Moretti, Satō Yukiko
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 634 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Brill's Japanese studies library, 0925-6512 ; volume 77
Brill's Japanese studies library ; v. 77
Contents Introduction to the world of kusazōshi / Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko -- Kusazōshi as material objects / Ellis Tinios -- The creative process / Takagi Gen ; translated by Joseph Bills -- Multimodality at work in early kusazōshi / Matsubara Noriko ; translated by Joseph Bills -- Multimodality at work in kibyōshi / Tsuda Mayumi ; translated by Laura Moretti -- Multimodality at work in gōkan / Satō Yukiko ; translated by Frederick Feilden -- Celebrating the present : the new world of kibyōshi unlocked by Mr Glitter 'n' Gold / Tanahashi Masahiro ; translated by Laura Moretti -- Occupied by play : ludic pleasures in kusazōshi / Laura Moretti -- Generative interactions : the osmotic boundaries between kusazōshi and ukiyo-e / Fumiko Kobayashi -- Metafictional pleasures / Satō Yukiko ; translated by Helen Magowan -- Relighting The peony lantern : strategies of multi-adaptation in an early nineteenth-century gōkan / Frederick Feilden -- The lifecycle of stories : the question of sekai in gōkan / Satō Satoru ; translated by Frederick Feilden -- Stage sounds for the eyes : performance and the visual-textual spaces of gōkan / Satoko Shimazaki -- Modes of appreciation and the end of kusazōshi / Michael Emmerich -- Kusazōshi as comix / Adam L. Kern -- Kusazōshi as comic books? : reading early modern graphic narratives from a manga studies perspective / Jaqueline Berndt -- "Managorō wailed" : visualizing kusazōshi in translation / Glynne Walley -- Appendix: Kusazōshi in English translation / Frederick Feilden and Joseph Bills
Summary "Part of a formidable publishing industry, cheap yet eye-catching graphic narratives consistently charmed early modern Japanese readers for around two hundred years. These booklets were called kusazōshi ("grass books"). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It enables anyone new to kusazōshi to gain comprehensive knowledge of the field. For the specialist, our edited volume marks a turning point in scholarship, uncovering fresh research avenues. While exploring the powerful effects of the visual-verbal imagination, this collection opens up bold new vistas on the act of reading and advances provocations around comics and manga"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 29, 2024)
Subject Kusazōshi -- History and criticism
Japanese fiction -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism
Illustration of books -- Japan -- Edo period, 1600-1868.
Illustration of books -- Edo period.
Japanese fiction -- Edo period.
Kusazōshi.
Japan.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies), editor
Satō, Yukiko, 1972- editor
LC no. 2023050866
ISBN 9004691200
9789004691209