Form and feeling in Japanese literati culture / Matthew Mewhinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mewhinney, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese poetry--Edo period, 1600-1868--History and criticism.

Japanese poetry.

Japanese poetry--1868---History and criticism.

Japanese poetry--Edo period.

Yosa, Buson, 1716-1784--Criticism and interpretation.

Yosa, Buson.

Saiko, Ema, 1787-1861--Criticism and interpretation.

Saiko, Ema.

Shiki, Masaoka, 1867-1902--Criticism and interpretation.

Shiki, Masaoka.

Seseki, Natsume, 1867-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

Seseki, Natsume.

Yosa, Buson, 1716-1784.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction

Late Edo Literati Culture

Late Edo Lyricism

Meiji Lyricism

Becoming the Poets They Wanted to Be

The Structure of the Present Book

References

2. Yosa Buson and the Colors of a Bunjin Mind

Seeing and Imagining Color

White, Death, and Lyric Time

Ekphrasis upon Ekphrasis

Repetition and Tautology

Form and Longing

3. Sense and Sensibility in the Poetry of Ema Saiko

A Room of One's Own

A Certain Slant of Light

There is No Frigate Like a Book

A Formal Feeling Comes

Poets Light But Lamps

4. Representing Life in the Prose Poems of Masaoka Shiki

Letting the Brush Go Where It Goes

Mind and Landscape

A Small Drop of Ink

Wandering in the Enigma of Form

5. Anxiety and Grief in the Prose Poems of Natsume Soseki

A "Haiku-Style Novel"

Pathologies of Motion

Nostalgia and Melancholy

Poetry and Memory

Sensory Renewal

The Poetics of Suspension

6. Coda: Echoes in the Ether.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9783031119217

3031119215

OCLC:

1331704395

Publisher Number:

99992599554