"Offers a new approach for understanding the relationship between the formal features of Edo-period Japanese popular fiction and the social and political world beyond its pages. Those formal features, which include formulaicness, narrative modularity, typological characters, and strong intertextual engagement with literary tradition, can appear to hold the 'real' world at arm's length, leaving scholars divided over how to understand the politics of commercial fiction--or whether we should seek a politics there at all. ...
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"Offers a new approach for understanding the relationship between the formal features of Edo-period Japanese popular fiction and the social and political world beyond its pages. Those formal features, which include formulaicness, narrative modularity, typological characters, and strong intertextual engagement with literary tradition, can appear to hold the 'real' world at arm's length, leaving scholars divided over how to understand the politics of commercial fiction--or whether we should seek a politics there at all. Atherton addresses this problem by expanding our understanding of form to encompass both the aesthetic and the social realms"--
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