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The aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / W. Puck Brecher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai�i Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780824839123 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Aesthetics of strangeness : eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan.DDC classification:
  • 709.52 23
LOC classification:
  • N7353.6.E33 B74 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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