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Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture

Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture

Mewhinney, Matthew

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismJapanese History

ISBN10: 3031119215
ISBN13: 9783031119217
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 18 2022
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saikō (1787-1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) - experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting. Their experiments generated a poetics of irony that transformed the lineaments of lyric expression in literati culture and advanced the emergence of modern prose poetry in Japanese literature. Through rigorous close readings, this study changes our understanding of the relationship between lyric form and the representation of self, sense, and feeling in Japanese poetic writing from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. The book aims to reach a broad audience, including specialists in East Asian Studies, Anglophone literary studies, and Comparative Literature.

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