The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brecher, W. Puck
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: strange interpretations
  • Contexts of strangeness in 17th century Japan
  • Cultural eccentricity and its vanguard
  • Strange thoughts: a confluence of intellectual heterodoxies
  • Kinsei kijinden and social value: biography reinvents the eccentric
  • Strangeness in the early 19th century: commercialism, conservatism, and diffusion
  • Reevaluating strangeness in late Tokugawa.