Idly Scribbling Rhymers : Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan / Robert Tuck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuck, Robert, author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Japanese poetry--Meiji period, 1868-1912--History and criticism.

Politics and literature--Japan--History--19th century.

Politics and literature--Japan--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a striking-but often overlooked-interest in poetry's ties to national character. In Idly Scribbling Rhymers, Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan that reveals the fissures within the process of imagining the nation.Structured around the work of the poet and critic Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers considers how poetic genres were read, written, and discussed within the emergent worlds of the newspaper and literary periodical in Meiji Japan. Tuck details attempts to cast each of the three traditional poetic genres of haiku, kanshi, and waka as Japan's national poetry. He analyzes the nature and boundaries of the concepts of national poetic community that were meant to accompany literary production, showing that Japan's visions of community were defined by processes of hierarchy and exclusion and deeply divided along lines of social class, gender, and political affiliation. A comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Japanese poetics and print culture, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry's surprising yet fundamental role in emerging forms of media and national consciousness.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE. Climbing the Stairs of Poetry: Kanshi, Print, and Writership in Nineteenth- Century Japan

CHAPTER TWO. Not the Kind of Poetry Men Write: "Fragrant- Style" Kanshi and Poetic Masculinity in Meiji Japan

CHAPTER THREE. Clamorous Frogs and Verminous Insects: Nippon and Political Haiku, 1890- 1900

CHAPTER FOUR. Shiki's Plebeian Poetry: Haiku as "Commoner Literature," 1890- 1900

CHAPTER FIVE. The Unmanly Poetry of Our Times: Shiki, Tekkan, and Waka Reform, 1890- 1900

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780231547222

0231547226

OCLC:

1041223791