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Author:

Jackson, Reginald R., 1979- author.

Title:

Textures of mourning : calligraphy, mortality, and The Tale of Genji scrolls / Reginald Jackson.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Genji monogatari emaki.
Murasaki Shikibu,--978?---Genji monogatari--Illustrations.
Genji monogatari emaki.
Genji monogatari (Murasaki Shikibu)
Scrolls, Japanese--Heian period, 794-1185.
Mortality in art.
Calligraphy, Japanese--Psychological aspects.
Japanese literature--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.
Japan--Civilization.
Civilization.
Japanese literature--Heian period.
Mortality in art.
Scrolls, Japanese--Heian period.
Japan.
794-1185
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Illustrated works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Rethinking mortality : notes toward an apprehensive method -- Dying to move : calligraphic performance, gestural texture, and textual ethics -- Sickness, illegibility, and the spectacle of lethal exposure -- Melancholic pedagogies and the exquisite female corpse -- Tangled-script's legacies of attachment -- Technological decryption, recessionary rebirth, and the intensification of two-dimensional life -- Discontinuous textures and melancholic repressions of mortality.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; number 84

ISBN:

047213096X
9780472130962

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1032288938

LCCN:

2018018740

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)