Title Imagining harmony : poetry, empathy, and community in mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and nativism / Peter Flueckiger

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 291 pages) : illustrations Contents Nature, culture, and society in Confucian literary thought : Chinese traditions and their early Tokugawa reception -- The Confucian way as cultural transformation : Ogyū Sorai -- Poetry and the cultivation of the Confucian gentleman : the literary thought of Ogyū Sorai -- The fragmentation of the Sorai school and the crisis of authenticity : Hattori Nankaku -- Kamo no mabuchi and the emergence of a nativist poetics -- Motoori Norinaga and the cultural construction of Japan Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Japanese poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature and society -- Japan -- History -- 18th century Nativism in literature. Culture in literature. Philosophy, Confucian. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese Culture in literature Literature and society Nativism in literature Philosophy, Confucian Japan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804776394 0804776393

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