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The aesthetics of strangeness

Brecher, W. Puck

The aesthetics of strangeness eccentricity and madness in early modern Japan / [electronic resource] : W. Puck Brecher. - Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm)

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.

9780824839123


Aesthetics, Japanese--History.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Japan.
Art, Japanese--Edo period, 1600-1868.


Electronic books.

N7353.6.E33 / B74 2013

709.52