
Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku,
2017
First Published
300
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Part of Series
The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikakus fiction, Gundrys lucid, compelling study examines works by Edo-period Japans leading writer of floating world literature both in their local context and as part of transnational trends in early bourgeois narrative.