TY - BOOK ID - 60074895 TI - Parody, irony and ideology in the fiction of Ihara Saikaku PY - 2017 SN - 9789004344310 9004344314 9789004343054 9004343059 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Parody KW - Irony in literature KW - J5926 KW - Comic literature KW - Literature, Comic KW - Travesty KW - Satire KW - Burlesque (Literature) KW - Caricature KW - Japan: Literature -- premodern fiction and prose -- Edo period, Kinsei (1600-1867) KW - Ihara, Saikaku, KW - Hirayama, Tōgo, KW - Ibara, Saikaku, KW - Ichidaiotoko Yonosuke, KW - Ihara, Shōjuken, KW - Jingyuan, Xihe, KW - Ихара, Сайкаку, KW - 井原西鶴, KW - 井原西鹤, KW - Saikaku, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - E-books KW - Parody. KW - Irony in literature. KW - Hirayama, Tōgo KW - Ibara, Saikaku KW - Ichidaiotoko Yonosuke KW - Ihara, Shōjuken KW - Jingyuan, Xihe KW - Saikaku KW - Ихара, Сайкаку KW - 井原西鶴 KW - 井原西鹤 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:60074895 AB - The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku’s fiction, David J. Gundry’s lucid, compelling study examines the tension reflected in key works by Edo-period Japan’s leading writer of ‘floating world’ literature between the official societal hierarchy dictated by the Tokugawa shogunate’s hereditary status-group system and the era’s de facto, fluid, wealth-based social hierarchy. The book’s nuanced, theoretically engaged explorations of Saikaku’s narratives’ uses of irony and parody demonstrate how these often function to undermine their own narrators' intermittent moralizing. Gundry also analyzes these texts’ depiction of the fleeting pleasures of love, sex, wealth and consumerism as Buddhistic object lessons in the illusory nature of phenomenal reality, the mastery of which leads to a sort of enlightenment. ER -