Verlag:
Cornell University East Asia Program, Ithaca, New York
"Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th-century popular fiction: the novel Nansō Satomi...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
Signatur:
6: E-913.56/10
Fernleihe:
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"Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th-century popular fiction: the novel Nansō Satomi hakkenden (The Lives of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi of Southern Kazusa; for short, Hakkenden), serialized from 1814 to 1842 by Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848)"--
xii, 439 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates,
illustrations (some color),
24 cm
Bemerkung(en):
Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-415) and index
Puppy love: how to read Hakkenden? -- Horse play: popular fiction and the early modern novel -- Dog stars: adaptation for fun and profit -- Monsters virtue: didacticism and criticism -- What are little boys/girls made of? Gender and virtue in Eight Dogs -- The "Way of Beasts" and the way of the warrior: species, social class, and virtue in Eight Dogs -- Why do bad things happen to good dogs? Thinking about good and evil.