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Author Cho, Hwisang, author.

Title The power of the brush : epistolary practices in Chosn Korea / Hwisang Cho.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue: A Story of Letter Writing in Twenty-First-Century Korea -- Letter Writing in Korean Written Culture -- The Rise and Fall of a Spatial Genre -- Letters in Korean Neo-Confucian Tradition -- Epistolary Practices and Textual Culture in the Academy Movement -- Social Epistolary Genres and Political News -- Contentious Performances in Political Epistolary Practices -- Epilogue: Legacies of the Chosn Epistolary Practices.
Summary "Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an "epistolary revolution" in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women using vernacular Korean script, who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. The physical peculiarities of new letter forms such as spiral letters, the cooptation of letters for purposes other than communication, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres combined to form a revolution in letter writing that challenged traditional values and institutions. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Subject Korean letters -- History and criticism.
Letter writing, Korean -- History.
Calligraphy, Korean -- History -- Chosn dynasty, 1392-1910.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Korea.
Calligraphy, Korean -- Choson dynasty
Korean letters
Letter writing, Korean
Chronological Term 1392-1910
Indexed Term History of Asia
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Cho, Hwisang. The power of the brush Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2020. 9780295747804 (DLC) 2020006831
ISBN 9780295747828 (epub)
029574782X
9780295747804 (hardcover)
9780295747811 (paperback)
0295747803
9780295747804
0295747811
9780295747811
Standard No. AU@ 000066779102

 
    
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