TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gundry,David J.
TI  - Parody, irony and ideology in the fiction of Ihara Saikaku
T2  - Brill's Japanese studies library
SN  - 9789004344310
AV  - PL794.Z5 G86 2017
U1  - 895.63/32 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Ihara, Saikaku,
KW  - Parody
KW  - Irony in literature
KW  - Parodie
KW  - Ironie dans la littérature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Asian
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Aspirations Above Their Station: The Life of an Amorous Man -- Chōnin High and Low: Five Women Who Loved Love -- Paragons of Wickedness: Twenty Cases of Filial Impiety in Japan -- The Brave, the Bad and the Ridiculous: Exemplary Tales of the Way of the Warrior -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku's fiction, David J. Gundry's lucid, compelling study examines the tension reflected in key works by Edo-period Japan's leading writer of 'floating world' literature between the official societal hierarchy dictated by the Tokugawa shogunate's hereditary status-group system and the era's de facto, fluid, wealth-based social hierarchy. The book's nuanced, theoretically engaged explorations of Saikaku's narratives' uses of irony and parody demonstrate how these often function to undermine their own narrators' intermittent moralizing. Gundry also analyzes these texts' depiction of the fleeting pleasures of love, sex, wealth and consumerism as Buddhistic object lessons in the illusory nature of phenomenal reality, the mastery of which leads to a sort of enlightenment
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