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Manga from the Floating World -- Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan [Buy it!] | Kern, Adam L | USD 77.18 (Thu May 30 09:47:33 2024) | AbebooksUK | Joseph Burridge Books | ISBN10: 0674022661, ISBN13: 9780674022669, [publisher: Harvard University Press] Hardcover xxiii, 567 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm Contents: pt. I. The kibyoshi (a study) -- Introduction : a little yellow comicbook -- The floating world in An'ei-Tenmei Edo -- The blossom of pulp fiction -- Manga culture and the visual-verbal imagination -- The rise and pratfall of the kibyoshi -- Reference matter -- Works cited -- Index -- pt. II. Translations -- A note on reading backwards -- A note on translating the kibyoshi -- Those familiar bestsellers -- Playboy, roasted à la Edo -- The unseamly silverpiped swingers. Part II. translations (p. 256-506) issued back-to-back with inverted text. [Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007] |