Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan

The World of Kusazōshi

Av Laura Moretti, Satō Yukiko

Del 77 i serien Brill's Japanese Studies Library

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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.Contributors are: Jaqueline Berndt, Joseph Bills, Michael Emmerich, Adam L. Kern, Fumiko Kobayashi, Frederick Feilden, Laura Moretti, Matsubara Noriko, Satō Satoru, Satō Yukiko, Satoko Shimazaki, Takagi Gen, Tanahashi Masahiro, Ellis Tinios, Tsuda Mayumi and, Glynne Walley.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2024-02-07
Mått: 155 x 235 x 38 mm
Vikt: 1 339 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Brill's Japanese Studies Library
Antal sidor: 634
Förlag: Brill
ISBN: 9789004504103

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Laura Moretti, Ph.D. (2003) is Professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. She has published widely in English and Japanese, including Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan (Columbia University Press, 2020).Satō Yukiko, Ph.D. (2000) is Professor at The University of Tokyo. She is one of the leading scholars working on early modern Japanese graphic narratives. She has several publications, including Edo no e’iri shōsetsu: Gōkan no sekai (Perikansha, 2001).

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"Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko should hold an exalted space in the world of comics scholarship for what they have contributed with Graphic Narratives… .They have lifted kusazōshi from a brief footnote to a full-fledged area of study, pulling together a mix of Japanese and Western scholars, bent on providing varying perspectives on the medium, from different approaches, backed up with much first-hand information, sourced from plenty of primary and secondary materials, fully explained in the text, footnotes, and explanatory notes to the reader, and profusely- and brilliantly-illustrated. What more can one ask for? A masterful job!" - John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art Blog, July 6, 2024“Laura Moretti and Satō Yukiko have brought together an impressive group of essays on a wide range of early modern Japanese graphic narratives. The book will be a fundamental resource for the study of Edo-period graphic fiction. This collaboration between Western and Japanese scholars has encouraged the members to engage with each other and to ask fundamental questions about how to approach these popular narratives. A passion for the material is evident in every essay, each of which comes with extensive lists of sources, primary and secondary...There is little to find fault within this volume; it is rich in detail and rigorous in its scholarship...In conclusion, this 634 page tome is a model of a “collective research volume” and a major contribution to our understanding of early modern Japanese graphic narratives and the culture around it”. - C. Andrew Gerstle, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 52, Number 1, Winter 2026, 207-211.

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