The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / W. Puck Brecher.
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780824836665
- 9780824839123 (e-book)
- 709.52 23
- N7353.6.E33 B74 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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