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dc.contributor.authorCho, Hwisang
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-16T08:39:53Z
dc.date.available2023-08-16T08:39:53Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75537
dc.description.abstractThe invention of an easily learned Korean alphabet in the mid-fifteenth century sparked an “epistolary revolution” in the following century as letter writing became an indispensable daily practice for elite men and women alike. The amount of correspondence increased exponentially as new epistolary networks were built among scholars and within families, and written culture created room for appropriation and subversion by those who joined epistolary practices. Focusing on the ways that written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of these changes 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 elite cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. 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. The Power of the Brush is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. DOI 10.6069/9780295747828en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesKorean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherLetters;Letter writing;Communication;Media;Chosŏn;Confucianism;Contentious politics;Local academies;Material textsen_US
dc.titleThe Power of the Brushen_US
dc.title.alternativeEpistolary Practices in Chosŏn Koreaen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf4ecffe-ae79-41c6-a4b1-18e7b7aac1b9en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByEmory University
oapen.relation.isFundedByAndrew W. Mellon Foundation
oapen.relation.isbn978029547804en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780295747811en_US
oapen.collectionToward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)en_US
oapen.pages291en_US
oapen.place.publicationSeattleen_US


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