Expanding Verse : Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campana, Andrew.

Series:

New Interventions in Japanese Studies

New Interventions in Japanese Studies ; v.6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese poetry--20th century.

Japanese poetry.

Japanese poetry--21st century.

Literature and technology--Japan--20th century.

Literature and technology.

Literature and technology--Japan--21st century.

Mass media and literature--Japan--20th century.

Mass media and literature.

Mass media and literature--Japan--21st century.

Mass media and technology--Japan--20th century.

Mass media and technology.

Mass media and technology--Japan--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan--many of which have never been examined in detail before--including the cinepoem, the tape recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music video poem, the online sign language poem, and the augmented reality poem. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, he contends that poetry actively aimed to disrupt the norms of media in each era. For the poets in Expanding Verse, poetry was not a medium in and of itself but a way to push back against what new media technologies crystallized and perpetuated. Their aim was to challenge dominant conceptions of embodiment and sensation, as well as who counts as a poet and what counts as poetry. Over and over, poetic practice became a way to think about each medium otherwise, and to find new possibilities at the edge of media.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Against the Screen: Poets Rewriting Cinema in 1920s and 1930s Japan

2. The Voice Recomposed: A Lost Tape-Recorder Poem of Postwar Japan

3. You Forbid Me to Walk: Yokota Hiroshi’s Disability Poetics

4. As a Piece of Flesh: Feminist Poetic Stardom and the Body

5. World Webs: Augmented Reality Poetry and Japanese Sign Language Poetry Online

Coda

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520399228

0520399226