Description: Further DetailsTitle: Licentious FictionsCondition: NewEAN: 9780231193702ISBN: 9780231193702Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/24/2019Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Daniel PochLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese NovelISBN-10: 023119370XDescription: Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior and a dangerous force transgressing social norms, ninjō became a focal point for debates about the role of the novel and a key motor propelling narrative plots.In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan. He explores how cultural anxieties about the power of literature in mediating emotions and desire shaped Japanese narrative from the late Edo through the Meiji period. Poch argues that the Meiji novel, instead of superseding earlier discourses and narrative practices surrounding ninjō, complicated them by integrating them into new cultural and literary concepts. He offers close readings of a broad array of late Edo- and Meiji-period narrative and critical sources, examining how they shed light on the great intensification of the concern surrounding ninjō. In addition to proposing a new theoretical outlook on emotion, Licentious Fictions challenges the divide between early modern and modern Japanese literary studies by conceptualizing the nineteenth century as a continuous literary-historical space.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Licentious Fictions
Title: Licentious Fictions
EAN: 9780231193702
ISBN: 9780231193702
Release Date: 12/24/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
ISBN-10: 023119370X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Licentious Fictions : Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Asian / Japanese, General, Modern / 19th Century, Subjects & Themes / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Daniel Poch
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
Item Width: 0.7 in
Format: Hardcover
