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Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan.

"The first full-length study in English of the kibyōshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comicbook widely read in late eighteenth-century Japan that became an influential form of political satire. The volume is copiously illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections"--Provi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kern, Adam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2020.
Colección:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The kibyōshi (a study): Introduction: A little yellow comicbook
  • The floating world in an'ei-tenmei Edo
  • The blossom of pulp fiction
  • Manga culture and the visual-verbal imagination
  • The rise and pratfall of the kibyōshi
  • Part II. Translations: A note on reading backwards
  • A note on translating the kibyōshi
  • Those familiar bestsellers
  • Playboy, roasted a la Edo
  • The unseamly silverpiped swingers.