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Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (Ca. 800-1200)

Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (Ca. 800-1200)

Sorensen, Joseph T.

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry AnthologiesGeneral Art Instruction

ISBN10: 9004219315
ISBN13: 9789004219311
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 6 2012
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry. In his examination of the important genre later termed screen poetry, Sorensen employs ekphrasis (the literary description of a visual art object) as a framework to analyze poems composed on or for painted screens. He provides close readings of poems and their social, political, and cultural contexts to argue the importance of the visual arts in the formation of Japanese poetics and poetic conventions.

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