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Basho and the DAO

Basho and the DAO

Qiu, Peipei

Hardcover

Literary CriticismTaoism

ISBN10: 0824828453
ISBN13: 9780824828455
Publisher: Univ Of Hawaii Pr
Published: Jul 31 2005
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.91 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Although haiku is well known throughout the world, few outside Japan are familiar with its precursor, haikai (comic linked verse). Fewer still are aware of the role played by the Chinese Daoist classics in turning haikai into a respected literary art form. Bashō and the Dao examines the haikai poets' adaptation of Daoist classics, particularly the Zhuangzi, in the seventeenth century and the eventual transformation of haikai from frivolous verse to high poetry. The author analyzes haikai's encounter with the Zhuangzi through its intertextual relations with the works of Bashō and other major haikai poets, and also the nature and characteristics of haikai that sustained the Zhuangzi's relevance to haikai poetic construction. She demonstrates how the haikai poets' interest in this Daoist work was rooted in the intersection of deconstructing and reconstructing the classical Japanese poetic tradition.

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