The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies)
women who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies. 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;
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. Embark on access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295747828 The 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 Power of the Brush is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Embark on Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Emory University and the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
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