Graphic narratives from early modern Japan : the world of kusazoshi / edited by Laura Moretti, Sato Yukiko

Moretti, Laura [HerausgeberIn] ; Sato, Yukiko *1972-* [HerausgeberIn]

English

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]

1 Online-Ressource (XXV, 634 Seiten) : Illustrationen

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Graphic narratives from early modern Japan. - Leiden : Brill, 2024. - XXV, 634 Seiten

978-90-04-69120-9 ebook

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-50410-3 (Druckausgabe)

Introduction to the world of kusazoshi / Laura Moretti and Sato Yukiko -- Mediality in kusazoshi. Kusazoshi as material objects / Ellis Tinios -- The creative process / Takagi Gen ; translated by Joseph Bills -- Multimodality at work in early kusazoshi / Matsubara Noriko ; translated by Joseph Bills -- Multimodality at work in kibyoshi / Tsuda Mayumi ; translated by Laura Moretti -- Multimodality at work in gokan / Sato Yukiko ; translated by Frederick Feilden -- The pleasures of reading. Celebrating the present: the new world of kibyoshi unlocked by Mr Glitter 'n' Gold / Tanahashi Masahiro ; translated by Laura Moretti -- Occupied by play: ludic pleasures in kusazoshi / Laura Moretti -- Generative interactions: the osmotic boundaries between kusazoshi and ukiyo-e / Fumiko Kobayashi -- Metafictional pleasures / Sato Yukiko ; translated by Helen Magowan -- Relighting The peony lantern: strategies of multi-adaptation in an early nineteenth-century gokan / Frederick Feilden -- The lifecycle of stories: the question of sekai in gokan / Sato Satoru ; translated by Frederick Feilden -- Stage sounds for the eyes: performance and the visual-textual spaces of gokan / Satoko Shimazaki -- Approaching kusazoshi in a global context. Modes of appreciation and the end of kusazoshi / Michael Emmerich -- Kusazoshi as comix / Adam L. Kern -- Kusazoshi as comic books? Reading early modern graphic narratives from a manga studies perspective / Jaqueline Berndt -- "Managoro wailed": visualizing kusazoshi in translation / Glynne Walley -- Appendix: Kusazoshi in English translation / Frederick Feilden and Joseph Bills.

*Kusazoshi -- History and criticism ; Japanese fiction -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism ; Illustration of books -- Japan -- Edo period, 1600-1868

*Literary criticism ; Essays

Library of Congress Classification: PL747.35

Dewey Decimal Classification: 895.63/309

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: EI 5026: E Allgemeine und vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Indogermanistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen und Literaturen / EI 4500-EI 7996 Japanologie / Edo-Zeit (1603-1868)

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: EI 5030: E Allgemeine und vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Indogermanistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen und Literaturen / EI 4500-EI 7996 Japanologie / Meiji-Zeit bis 1945

"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 kusazoshi ("grass books"). Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan is the first English-language publication of its kind. It enables anyone new to kusazoshi 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"--

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