Violence and Form: How to Read Early Modern Japanese Fiction With David Atherton

Focusing on depictions of violence, David Atherton will show how the dynamics of early modern literary form had the potential to alter the perception of time and space, make social and economic forces visible, defamiliarize conventions, give voice to the socially peripheral, and reshape the contours of community. Zoom link: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/6Vw0--MqQVqHtPuZ_iaLuw#/reg istration