Transnational haiku : Polish history of the genre / Beata Śniecikowska ; translated by Justyn Hunia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Śniecikowska, Beata, 1976- author.

Series:

Cross-roads (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 28.

Cross-roads. Studies in culture, literary theory, and history ; volume 28

Standardized Title:

Haiku po polsku. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Haiku, Polish--History and criticism.

Haiku, Polish.

Polish poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Polish poetry.

Polish poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

Haiku--History and criticism.

Haiku.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

697 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Peter Lang, [2021]

Language Note:

Translated from the Polish.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Haiku and the "Extinction of Genres"

II. Transculturality

III. Notes on "Haikology"

pt. 1 Classical Japanese Haiku Verse: Form and Prototype

I. A Glimpse at the Culture of Japan

1. Religions, Worldviews

2. Aesthetic Categories

3. Language (and Poetry)

II. A Brief History of Haiku

III. The Poetics of Haiku; Haiku and Senryu

IV. Prototype, Invariant, Stereotype: Haiku in the West

pt. 2 Roads to Haiku: In the West

I. Haiku in Europe, Haiku across the Pond

II. Vorgeschichte of Haiku in Poland: Young Poland, the Interwar Period

1. Knowledge of Haiku (Prior to 1939)

2. Young-Poland Haiku?

3. Haiku and Interwar Poetry

A. "Hay-kay" by Stern, Tanka Poems by Iwaszkiewicz

B. Japanese Miniatures by Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (and Staff)?

C. Przybos and Lesmian: "Przybosian" and "Lesmianian" Model of Haiku?

III. Before Haiku-images: Staff, Brzekowski, Kozioi, Krynicki

IV. Amongst Polish Translations of Haiku

pt. 3 Polemic Extremes of "Haiku"

I. Grochowiak's Longest Journey

1. The Strange Epilogue

2. The Refining of Poetry: Grochowiak's Self-censorship?

A. Towards Zen?

B. Two Concisions

C. A Reshuffle of Poetics

3. What Is a Haiku-image?

4. Imagery

A. The Visual Node

B. The Obscuring of Images

C. Images Facing Each Other

D. Parallel Verses

D.1. "Tri-haiku-ness:" Grochowiak's Renga

D.2. "Three Incipits"

5. The Reverse of Visuality

A. Narrativeness

B. Gnomicity

6. Struggles of the Modernist

II. Haiku-Blague or "Freestyle Haiku?" The Work of Dariusz Brzoska-Brzoskiewicz

1. Brzoska-Brzoskiewicz's Haiku (!)

2. Brzoska's Haiku: Snatches of Everyday Life?

3. "Haiku:" Ferment in Language

4. HiQ

III. Grochowiak - Brzoska

pt. 4 Oscillations around Haiku

I. The Poetry of Mindfulness: Czeslaw Milosz and Haiku

1. Milosz's Miniatures: Towards Haiku?

2. Reading Japanese Poets

3. Milosz the Translator

II. Haiku? Senryu? Mironu? The Poetry of Miron Bialoszewski and Oriental Genres

1. Bialoszewski's Zen? Bialoszewski's Zen Poetry?

2. Haikuing in an "Anthill Tower?"

3. "The Most `Eastern' of Polish Poets"

4. Haiku? Senryu? Mironu?

pt. 5 Originals or Imitations? On the "Perfectly Genuine" Polish Haiku

I. Mimesis and Epiphany

II. The Poetics of the Revitalization of the Genre

1. De-automatization of Sensorial Perception

2. Metaphorization

3. Conceptism

A. Texts-puzzles

B. Word-image Concepts

C. Verbal Concepts

D. Acoustic Concepts

III. Into the Depths of Meanings

1. Uncertainty, Ambiguity

2. Intimacy, Eroticism

3. Death

4. The Orient

5. Religious Haiku

A. Zen in Polish?

B. Christian Haiku

IV. Intertextuality

1. References to Japanese Haiku: Paraphrases-Naturalizations, Literary Allusions

2. In Dialogue with the Occident

V. Autothematism, Autotelism

VI. Continuators or Epigones?

pt. 6 A "Haiku" Miscellany

I. Orthodoxly Christian "Haiku"

II. "Haiku-mirohlady," or a "Liberary Gloss"

III. "Haiku" Aphorisms, "Haiku" Epigrams, "Haiku" Maxims

IV. "Haiku:" Poetic Miniature

pt. 7 The Verbo-visuality of Haiku; Haiku and the Visual Arts

I. Japam The Visuality of Haiku (Haiku and the Visual Arts)

II. The Aesthetics of Haiku: The Aesthetics of the Occident

1. Antilaocoonism

2. Gesamtkunstwerk?

3. Haiku and Aesthetics of Modernism

III. Polish Artists on the Verbo-visuality of the Orient

1. Books

A. Anthologies

B. Haiku Collections

B.1. As Simple as Possible

B.2. Illustrations: Between the Orient and the Occident

B.2.1. Script

B.2.2. Photography

B.2.3. Graphics, Drawing, Painting

B.2.4. Collage

B.3. Visual Poetry

B.4. Book Covers

IV. Beyond Two Dimensions

1. Haiku and Artists' Books

2. Exhibitions with "Haiku" in the Title

3. Multimedia Haiku?

A. Orientalization: Haiku and Photography on the Internet

B. Naturalization of Otherness: "Unity in Multiplicity" or Incoherent Eclecticism?

V. Transcultural Verbo-visuality?.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9783631846490

3631846495

OCLC:

1253476269

Publisher Number:

99989266802