World within Walls
Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era 1600-1867
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23129161 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Earl Miner (corresponding author), Donald Keene |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 194 |
| Publication date | 1979-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4124 • E-ISSN: 1945-8517 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1771142 |
| OpenAlex | W2005168955 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the walls of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's vast literary output, providing both lay readers and scholars with the definitive history of premodern Japanese literature. World Within Walls spans the age in which Japanese literature began to reach a popular audience-as opposed to the elite aristocratic readers to whom it had previously been confined. Keene comprehensively treats each of the new, popular genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the witty, urbane prose of the newly ascendant merchant class.
Aesthetics · Art · Elite · Haiku · Kabuki · Literature · Period (music) · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Rest (music) · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
World Without Walls
Artistic language of ihara saikaku
Household and Its Discontents
A Genealogy of Badges
Hierarchy, Hubris, and Parody in Ihara Saikaku's Kōshoku ichidai otoko
Snow Woman Yukionna
Reproductive Strategies and Romantic Love in Early Modern Europe
Cultivating Femininity
The foreign threat and the opening of the ports
The Meiji Restoration
Meiji political institutions
The rise of haikai
Japan in the early nineteenth century
Translation, vernacular style, and the Westernesque femme fatale in modern Japanese literature
Dying to Tell
Japanese Demon Lore
Economic change in the nineteenth century
Japan's drive to great-power status
Japan's turn to the west
The Tempō crisis
Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868–1885
Late Tokugawa culture and thought
The Cambridge History of Japan
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
Dying to Tell
Travel and Tabibanashi in the Early Modern Period
Unsuitable Books for Women
Kanazōshi Revisited
Playing with Nezumi Toys, Dreaming of Unattainable Utopia
On the edge of narrative
Blurred boundaries
Theorizing sex/gender in early modern Japan
Learning to be Graceful
The Appeal of "Kaidan", Tales of the Strange
| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,89 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2025 (38) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |