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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kern, Adam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Brill Academic Publishers : Brill, 2020.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 279.
Subjects:
1600-1868
Kusazōshi.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Japan.
Japanese fiction > Edo period, 1600-1868 > History and criticism.
Kibyōshi-bon.
Roman japonais > 1600-1868 (Époque d'Edo) > Histoire et critique.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > Manga > Historical Fiction.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Japanese fiction > Edo period.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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