The power of the brush : epistolary practices in Chosŏn Korea

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The power of the brush : epistolary practices in Chosŏn Korea

Title remainder

epistolary practices in Chosŏn Korea

Statement of responsibility

Hwisang Cho

Creator

• Cho, Hwisang

Contributor

• EBSCOhost

Author

• Cho, Hwisang

Subject

• Korean letters -- History and criticism
• Letter writing, Korean -- History
• Calligraphy, Korean -- History -- Chosŏn dynasty, 1392-1910

Language

eng

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"--

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• Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies

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Provided by publisher

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NhCcYBP

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Korean studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies