Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism Contributor(s): Flueckiger, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804761574 ISBN-13: 9780804761574 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $71.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
Dewey: 895.613 |
LCCN: 2010013338 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Imagining Harmony explores the diverse roles that poetry played for eighteenth-century Japanese intellectuals as an embodiment of human emotion, a form of linguistic and philological training, and a means for accessing the ancient cultures that they turned to as the source of their political ideals. |