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Author(s): Laura Moretti Date: 2024 Format: pdf Language: English ISBN/ASIN: 0231197225   Pages: 440 OCR: Quality: ISBN13:   Uploader: topron Upload Date: 9/15/2023 3:25:48 AM       To download click on link in the Links Table below                                                                        Description: Click to see full description In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the breadth of popular prose. In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres. Moretti explores how booksellers sparked interest among readers across the spectrum of literacies and demonstrates how they tantalized consumers with vital ethical, religious, societal, and interpersonal knowledge. She recasts books as tools for knowledge making, arguing that popular prose engaged its audience cognitively as well as aesthetically and emotionally to satisfy a burgeoning curiosity about the world. Crucially, Moretti shows, readers experienced entertainment within the didactic, finding pleasure in the profit gained from acquiring knowledge by interacting with transformative literature. Drawing on a rich variety of archival materials to present a vivid portrait of seventeenth-century Japanese publishing, Read more Links Table     Title Link Password Size (MB) Thank to Inform Admin 3201440 Book https://nitroflare.com/view/1026DC66305C...   0.00 topron Tags: Century Japan Pleasure Popular Profit Prose Seventeenth Title Link Password Size Reason Dead link New format   Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books: Comments New comment:

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