Saikaku and the Narrative Turnabout
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6081879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey Johnson (0000-0001-8290-2857, University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 323-345 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Japanese Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0095-6848 • E-ISSN: 1549-4721 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3591969 |
| OpenAlex | W2978954888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay contextualizes Ihara Saikaku’s comedy within broader elements of Tokugawa society and critical concepts in literary studies. The complexity of Saikaku’s work is examined by employing and altering Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the “carnivalesque” and rhetorical tropes from Japanese and Western literary traditions. Saikaku’s comedy engages elite and lowly as well as social and literary hierarchies in its constant inversions and play
Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Political science · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2017 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |