The power of the brush : epistolary practices in Chosŏn Korea /

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 material...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cho, Hwisang (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
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Table of 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 Chosŏn Epistolary Practices.